Interesting article about health care

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This is interesting — I already pay more for the “brand name” drugs. For example, if I go with Humalog insulin (which makes me itch by the way), I have a $20.00 copay (for a month’s supply). If I go with Novolog, it’s a $30.00 copay.

Same thing goes with test strips — if I go with their choice of meter, it’s $40.00 copay for 3 months or $60.00 copay for the brand I like.

I do wish, however, that the doctor’s office would cooperate with me, rather than them. I was recently switched to a cheaper statin — Pravachol.

Now, my doctor hasn’t bothered to tell me — I guess I’ll email him and ask — why he agreed with the pharmacy and switched me.

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October 5, 2003

malibu

its wrong how you have to pay more for branded medicines when you don’t have the choice.
Here in the UK though my mum doesn’t have to pay for any test strips, insulin or anything. Its all free on the NHS. all she has to do is let the chemist know a few days before she needs a new stock and they do it for her. The NHS may have a long waiting list for ops, but it isn’t half useful for other things.

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October 5, 2003

Kathleen Weaver

Actually I CAN. However, the person receiving the fax at the doctor’s office always reads the fax wrong and they feel like the pharmacy is going to not give any script at all if they don’t comply.
That’s not correct, and they don’t have to comply.

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February 12, 2004

blackjack

Good luck with that.

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