$300 COPAY? what's that, for a year??? i don't know what her dosage is but a quick search shows a 10ml vile is btwn $79 and $84
Posted on 01/13/2019 4:06:03 PM PST by conservative98
A federal worker with diabetes says she has to ration her insulin because she can’t afford the medication amid the government shutdown.
When Department of the Interior worker Mallory Lorge — who suffers from Type 1 diabetes — felt her blood sugar rise last week, she said she was forced to try to ignore it.
“I can’t afford to go to the ER. I can’t afford anything. I just went to bed and hoped I’d wake up,” Lorge told NBC News.
Lorge, 31, said she has two vials of insulin left in her fridge — but she’s conserving them as she can no longer afford the $300 copay.
The River Falls, Wisc., woman said she’s been going through her possessions to see what she can sell because she hasn’t been getting a paycheck as the record-long government shutdown drags on.
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*If* it’s true, Obamacare is exactly why she cannot afford her copay.
Before OCare, our copay was $5, no matter *what*.
Now it’s $10 and up for my stuff and insane prices for his stuff.
OCare ruined everything.
bullshit
The typical coapy may not be always that large, but it’s a new year, so she might have an RX deductible to meet before she is covered. We face this every January with our prescriptions.
She should go to one of those cheap clinics for indigents in the inner city.
This is pure bulls***-there are not many fed workers out here, but the 2 I know have good insurance-better than the obamacrap private sector workers have to buy-and in 27+ years as a workers comp case manager I’ve never heard of a $300 co-pay on a commonly used med like insulin...
I know! Let's just start the government back up because otherwise poor __[fill in the blank]___ won't get her insulin. Letting thousands of illegal invaders into the country is a small price to pay.
Well that’s just ridiculous to pick your insulin over the cell phone! How can you expect her to make such a choice?
You mean to tell me that, as a government employee, you can’t cut back on *anything else* so you can afford your life-saving insulin? I’m unemployed right now and I’ve cut back on things and run up some additional credit card debt just to make sure my absolute needs are met.
How did you let yourself get a federal job and not be able to afford necessities for a month or more? I’m not saying I don’t believe it but she’s probably a poor budgeter.
Exactly what I was thinking. Besides, insulin at our local Walmart is $25. This whole story stinks.
$300 COPAY? what's that, for a year??? i don't know what her dosage is but a quick search shows a 10ml vile is btwn $79 and $84
If she lives payday to payday, that means last Friday she did not have $300 to buy insulin because she had no paycheck. If she does have a reserve, maybe she needs it to feed her children for who knows how long. These people are victims of the democrats. I feel bad for them.
Yes, but If she lives paycheck to paycheck, that would be the firs and only time she had no paycheck. The article implied she has not been getting a check for a longer period of time.
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Posted on 01/13/2019 2:03:54 PM PST by mdittmar
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She says she’s looking for something to sell. How about her labor, while Feds aren’t using it. Trump lowered unemployment rate enough she should be able to find temporary real work until non-essential fed fake work resumes. Or she could just take out a bank loan against her delayed fed earnings. Or withdraw something against her fat fed pension.
Has she even been to the local credit union to ask for a loan?
Fake news. If a government worker I doubt that medical benefits will be affected.
Fake Fake Fake
Hell, I have a coworker who sells insulin he gets from the VA. I should put the two in contact with each other.
If she has federal employee insurance, a $300 copay sounds very suspicious. She may be on one of the newer generation insulins or expensive insulin pens, but Wal-Mart sells N, 70/30, and Regular insulin for $29 a bottle. So, yeah, she’s probably lying. She could be switched to the cheap insulin, if her copay for what she’s on now, really IS $300. As far as free samples go, genetic drugs are not available for samples in doctor offices. But the newer drugs are often provided for a low cost, through drug company programs.
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