[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Although the average price per prescription remained flat between 2020 and 2021, the number of retail prescriptions grew, with out-of-pocket spending for prescription medications increasing by 4.8%,” the CDC reported. “Cost-saving strategies such as skipping doses, taking reduced doses, and delaying filling a prescription may make health conditions worse, result in more serious illness, and require additional expensive treatment, and therefore have implications for health and the costs of care.”

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Helluvajob you’re doing there, Brandon! *SPIT*

[Reno89519]

I have a new $201 prescription to consider picking up today. And that is with insurance.

[Auntie Mame]

Sounds like an ad for the pharmaceutical companies, of which the CDC is a marketing arm. My father was taking 22 prescription drugs at the time of his death. When he went on hospice I called his doctor, the one who prescribed all those 22 drugs, and asked him if we could get him off some of them and was told, “Absolutely not!”

[metmom]

The pharm industry makes a lot of money by having doctors convince people they need the drug company’s meds.

How much Type 2 diabetes could be dealt with by diet, exercise, and losing weight?

But no, there’s no money in that so it’s easier to put diabetics on a high carb diet, which will keep them fat and diabetic and on meds, than to deal with the root cause of it.

[cyclotic]

I have a minor skin condition that is getting to be a bit more problematic. When I took Ivermectin for Covid it cleared up for months.

I’ve gotten a doctor to prescribe it but my stupid insurance company won’t cover it. The cash price is several hundred dollars. I’m working with another doctor to try to get it now but have to jump through a bunch of hoops.

I just realized that I have a friend who is from India. Maybe he can get me some.

[John Milner]

I have one prescription that is ridiculously expensive. And they are very precise in when you can get the next refill. I take one pill twice a day (morning and evening).

I’ve decided to cut one in half and twice a week, spaced well apart, I take a full one in the morning and a half at night. Thus gaining one pill per week in my inventory, worth 1/2 day’s dose.

I’m doing it mostly to build a bit of a reserve supply, but the fact that I’m saving a bit of cash in the long run doesn’t hurt either.

[TomGuy]

I picked up a generic prescription (for gout) last week. The 3-month supply cost me $0 with my Medicare Advantage drug coverage. The accompanying printout showed that I would have had to pay $74.27 out-of-pocket without insurance.

The 5 generics I take would cost nearly $300 per quarter out-of-pocket.

[38special]

Well my crappy healthcare insurance makes me go in for a visit to the doctor before they will refill my scripts.

[Noumenon]

Remember. They want you dead.