I know people that pay right at $300 per month for cable TV. I am not talking about rich people. That’s almost $4000 per year to watch freakin’ TV.
That said, I don’t know the teacher’s situation. I would find it difficult to believe they couldn’t come up with $116. She may have felt she was getting better without the medication. I get prescriptions filled and never take them if I don’t absolutely need them.
Yep. God bless her family and her loved ones. Something is wrong if someone can't come up with $116 copay. Of course she didn't think it was life or death. Not many would.
And knowing the people here at the Free Republic, I don't doubt that even the most flint hearted among us wouldn't have given her the $116 had we been able to foresee the outcome.
The WWI flu epidemic of 1918 mowed down young people with great vigor. For whatever reason, young healthy people were the most susceptible to the "Spanish Flu". Take a walk through an old cemetery sometime, and you will be shocked at how many tombstones are dated from 1918, marking the grave of someone who was in his or her late teens or twenties.