Walmart has 33 types of antibiotics for $4.
There are ways to get around everything.
My doctors write out generic prescriptions for me, I am also so called fully insured by Cigna but I have a co-payment.
Without any notice my work place raised the co-pay for specialists [ Chiropractors, Physical Therapy, Nutritionists to Surgeons ] from $20.00 a visit to $40.00.
My PC who does most of the work is still at $20.00 so far.
Through the grape vine I have heard of Seniors that with the help of a friendly doctor have their dose of medication doubled and they cut the pills in half and can make the medication last twice as long.
Sad case a couple of years ago. A Veterinarian in town was trying to help her patients but found their elderly owners were skipping check-ups because the old folks needed money for their own medication.
Things got out of hand, for the Vet. what started out as one person and their pet became just one too many.
How it worked, Say a owner has thyroid medication that costs them a co-payment of $20.00 --the Vet would write out a prescription for that drug and put [ Dog, Cat, whatever] after the name of the pet and the cost was usually under $2.00.
For just one of my medications without insurance it would cost me $160.00 for 30 count.
By a weird chance my dog needed the very same medication, cost for a dog, $10.00.
A family member found out about Grandpa taking medication for his cat and decided to shake down the Vet.
The road to hell is paved on good intentions.
Today people get around that problem for the Vet. The get a RX from their vet and order the drug on line from one company. There are 50 different Co. that will ship you pet meds , the folks order each month from a different CO.
It is horrible that the elderly have to become criminals to have heat in the winter. Society will go up side down to help the kids, the elderly are another story.
We sing songs and write beautiful poems to our fore fathers, when they are long dead and gone.
When our fore fathers are still alive, they are ripe for the picken. All your life you have been told that Grandpas has an account to pay for your college. Last year in high school you find Grandpa has lost all his money in the stock market. He now has just a small pension and needs to use YOUR college money to survive.
Easy to see where this is going. A life time of promise is gone, now the kid needs to take out thousands of dollars in loans to go to school.
Meanwhile Grandpa is still alive and each day burns up any money he has left. The poor old fella can still get around some but sleeps 18 hours a day. All that money to keep him alive eventually in a nursing home where he just exists, eats, voids, and sleeps.
Anyone with Grampas power of attorney can with hold any medication from him, can even issue NO resuscitation orders.
Tempted to find that like putting a pet to sleep, this is for the good of the pet or Grandpa. Poor Grandpa, he does not know anyone of us, he cannot feed himself or speak by a few words. I would never want to spend 5 years in his conditions.
The cost to keep Grandpa alive in this condition is huge, he will never improve, time to pull the plug, he would have wanted us to do this FOR him.
