You know the pharmaceutical companies give away medications based on need. One of my friends sells cancer drugs and told me about it. I got this from the MI atty general website
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LEGITIMATE FREE DRUG RESOURCES
If you cannot afford prescription drugs, you do not have to pay for information about patient assistance programs that provide free drugs to those who qualify. There are free resources available.
Ask your doctor or other health care provider about free drug programs. Your doctor's office may have information or can explain how you can get information.
Consumers may also contact the Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA). PPA is a partnership of drug companies, doctors, health care providers, patient advocacy organizations, and community groups who have combined their resources to help qualifying uninsured consumers get free medicine from various public and private patient assistance programs. PPA is a one-stop shopping concept that offers consumers access to more than 275 public and private patient assistance programs, including more than 150 programs offered by pharmaceutical companies.
To contact PPA, consumers may call toll free 1-888-477-2669, or visit the PPA Web site at www.pparx.org.
I saved the info because sometimes my daughter has trouble getting her seizure medication which is very expensive and sometimes they run out of funding and for other family members. My grandson needs to carry some bee sting med because he is horribly allergic to them and can't afford whatever it is. I told him to go to the emergency room right away if he gets stung, what else can he do? He's legal. Maybe this info you gave me could help him with that if and until he gets on his feet.
I got behind on my utility bills because things are a little flaky the last couple months, called to make arrangements to pay so I wouldn't get a shutoff notice. At the end, she asked me if I wanted the number to apply for assistance. No. Politely. There are other people out there who need it worse than I do.
I feel a little guilty even collecting social security and going on medicare since I know the system is in trouble, but I had ins probs for years before that, they didn't want to touch me because of my history. The irony is that even though my health has been up and down, I don't think I've cost one insurance company one dime since my divorce in early 1973, was covered through work for some years, no claims, paid my own way for more years including one expensive outpatient surgery. I skipped the $8000 one, am still here. Just one company the last couple years picked up a little off my prescriptions before I got on to medicare. The county did pay for quite a bit when I had my last breakdown, no ins coverage for any of that. Before my divorce, I did have several hospitalizations for babies and breakdowns.
Now that I am on medicare, I will try not to abuse it and use services that aren't absolutely necessary.
You never know what the future will bring though. I will pay my own way as long as I can. If others are abusing the various programs, and I know some are, that is their problem and our problem to not let invaders take away from our own. That is what is happening now to mine. My granddaughter finally got ins, so does her boyfriend. Before that, she had to cough up the cash or it would give her bad credit which affects her student loan. Illegals were getting better medical care than some citizens. But no one is really turned away like the libs like to chant. She really needs some non-cosmetic dental work done. That is not covered. I don't know what illegals do about the dentist; it's mostly hospital emergency rooms that have caused some to shut down & probs. Some hospitals charge more to insured patients to make up for the uninsured who can't pay, I can't prove it, but have heard it talked about enough to know something is up there.
I didn't post the article to bash Bush, although some things he does make me shake my head. The Hispanics are likely to go Dem anyway, so why try to curry their favor? They will be a significant power bloc in the future, and our children and grandchildren are going to have to deal with it. They will remember who didn't want them here, many are here to stay now whether we like it or not, and I fear they will take it out on the rest of us if they get sufficient political power.
But we sure as h don't need to send illegally gotten gains to Mexico. Enough is enough.