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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on August 31, 2009, 08:59:36 AM
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lwcon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Aug-31-09 09:14 AM
Original message
The government got between me and my doctor
Edited on Mon Aug-31-09 09:15 AM by lwcon
I got a letter from the government, saying that they contacted my doctor and made him replace a daily prescription of mine with another drug of their choosing.
They were kind enough to allow me to finish my current bottle before experimenting with the cheaper (for them -- same cost to me) product. Wasn't that generous of them?
Oh, wait, that wasn't the government. That was my health insurer. No problem, then!
I sure hope we get a "uniquely American" solution that keeps these swell folks in charge of our nation's health care.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6429526
You complain now just wait till Obama is in charge.
hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Aug-31-09 09:19 AM
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1. Sorry, no score for that one. A man at one of Obama's town halls
complained that Medicaid made him do that, and Obama told the man that that's what should happen. Why pay more for the name brand if the cheaper stuff works just as well or better.
Now, Medicaid put the man back on the original name brand when two substitutes were tried and didn't work. If the new drug doesn't work for you and the insurance company won't pay for the good stuff, then you have a good anecdote.
OOPS :lmao:
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As soon as Obamacare passes we can all join in singing that old knee-grow spiritual.
"Shall we gather at John Hopkins."....where all medicare care is free."
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It was probably some pain killer that the insurance company could find no justification for. Probably got something that would relieve their monir pain, but won't get him/her/it/other high. LOL!
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Obama told the man that that's what should happen. Why pay more for the name brand if the cheaper stuff works just as well or better.
Why don't DUmmies embrace generics? After all, Big Pharma is the enemy, and will be wiped out if O-care is able to eliminate the incentives for
research and development of new drugs.
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Why don't DUmmies embrace generics? After all, Big Pharma is the enemy, and will be wiped out if O-care is able to eliminate the incentives for
research and development of new drugs.
Because in their minds they are the most special people in the world and deserve the very best...........when other people pay for it.
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Because in their minds they are the most special people in the world and deserve the very best
Oooh yeah, they're special, all right. :mental: :mental: :mental: