Medicine is Going to Break My Bank
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My daughter has eczema and I have been able to keep it under control by making sure her allergies don’t flare up, watching her diet, and using a couple of different standard prescription lotions.
However, her father has a cat in his house now and every time my daughter has come home from a weekend at her father’s her skin has been worse and worse, until this week I finally broke down and took her to my dermatologist. Of course, she told me what I already know, that the cat is taxing her immune system and everything else is going by the wayside while she is in that environment. She set up a new regime and that means a new antihistamine and two new skin medications. And, all of them have outrageous $45 co-pays on her insurance plan. I went ahead and filled them for one month, but I promptly began to research the generic options, as well as websites that might offer the medications for cheaper than the pharmacies around here.
It’s amazing the medications you can find online from companies who will not ask for a prescription. I mean, it’s pretty common knowledge that you can get Viagra and Phentermine without prescription, but I was amazed at what else people are selling. I am still more comfortable going through a local pharmacy for the medications that were prescribed yesterday, but as I said – we are definitely going with generics the next time. I have no idea why I didn’t tell them that at the pharmacy when I dropped off the prescriptions that I wanted generics. Shopping with my daughter makes me lose all focus.
Of course, without the prescription insurance, the 2 creams would have been $202.99 and $247.99 – pretty much making it a sure thing that nobody at all can afford to buy most medications without insurance. And, that, my friends leads us to a whole other topic I will address at another time, which is the reform of our medical and pharmaceutical industries.
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