We are Medicare and Tricare Life both totally government controlled.
This march Tricare MANDATED where we can obtain our daily meds. Crappy untrustworthy Express Scripts or Military Base. Automated. ES takes 3 weeks to fill first script, 2 weeks refills. Just shoved UNSIGNED for into your mail box.
Base takes up to 24 hrs to fill depending on time of day you turn it in. Refills take 5 days out of Pensacola. AUTOMATED reorders for both.
Medicare premiums went up, and will go up again next year.
http://www.kiplinger.com/article/retirement/T039-C001-S003-what-you-ll-pay-for-medicare-in-2015.html
Test got moved farther apart. And some things like back nerve blocks were limited to 3 per year.
Once you get a diagnosis of Osteoporosis a bone density test is the only way a doctor knows if the med is working. Yet they put that test off to every 2 years. Instead of yearly as it needs doing. Mine is -3.1 which is BAD. And I can’t get another bone density test until 2015. I had to go the natural route to treat it of vits/mins (out of my pocket and some of them are very expensive and can’t be deducted from income taxes), as I’m allergic to their drugs. I’m extremely drug sensitive. And reacted to the Fosamax with in 3 pills, of the sample pack. It went in the trash can. Then I went Googling on the rest of the OP drugs. And did NOT like what I found at all they are very dangerous life threatening drugs. With all kinds of horrid side effects. Reclast NEVER leaves you system.
FDA WARNINGS OP DRUGS Kidney failure deaths, A FIB, A typical Femur Fractures, and degenerative jaw risk, it goes for all OP drugs.
Reclast has the highest warning.
Reclast UPS kidney failure deaths, A FIB, A typical Femur Fractures, and degenerative jaw risk. Not to be given to Asthma patients.
http://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/news/20110901/fda-osteoporsis-drug_ups-kidney-failure-risk
Safety update for osteoporosis drugs, bisphosphonates, and atypical fractures
http://www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/drugsafetypodcasts/ucm229800.htm
Black box warning Foreto (REVERSES itself after the 18-24 month treatment plan)
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=21853
Like most useful medications, Forteo may have its possible downside. In animals, it promotes the development of osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. In humans, osteosarcoma has not been reported but it remains a concern with Forteo. (The daily injections are also a downside.)
My question why are they still on the market? No wonder the lawyers are so sue happy when the drugs are this bad they should have never been on the market in the first place.
Neither form of health care will cover one cent for needed medical device called HEARING AIDS. Even middle of the road ones are $3,400 a pair.
Why are people who are not diabetic treated differently than those who are not, yet have the same side disease? PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY, Medicare covers 100% of the cost of treating it for a diabetic 0% of the cost except for drugs if you are a non diabetic with PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY.
Should read Why are people who are diabetic treated differently than those of us who are not, yet have the same side disease? PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY. There is no difference in the treatment or drugs. Yet those of us who are not diabetic are discriminated against.