Yes, I have. a perscription that the Humana doesn't cover a couple years ago was around 25 dollars, and had it filled again and it was 75. I couldn't believe it. I have Humana for prescriptions and seems they mostly just cover meds you can get the fake one. Even my pain meds, that is the ganeric one and it is three times as much as in Dec. Really makes me mad. Every one can have ins. well how the heck you supposed to be able to pay for all this. It has always been available if you could afford. But Obama will save us. Crap. Louise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Crim" <ddcrim@gmail.com> To: "an-internet-family" <an-internet-family@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:49 AM Subject: [ML] Grrrrrr > Has anyone else noticed a change in your health insurance benefits? > > A couple of days ago, Sherry called MDA to refill her prescription for her > chemo-drug... I still don't understand why we can't find a local pharmacy > that can get that drug, but that's how it goes.. Anyhow, yesterday the Rx > was delivered via FedEx... when she opened the enclosed bill, she > discovered > that instead of a $50 co-pay, we were billed for $200.... YIKES! > Sherry seemed to remember that at her work she did get something from BCBS > about possible changes... Next week I will have to have all my scripts > refilled... I'm almost afraid to find out what that will cost... > Anyone else seen surprises in their co-pay? > > The Dougster.. :-)* > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Prescription costs are getting more expensive because everyone wants more and more. I remember my mother going to our family doctor and him stepping into his little room beside this office and mixing a bit of "this" and a bit of "that" in a bottle, shaking it, handing it to mom and said "50 cents". We recovered from our illness and many of that generation are still around long after everyone was thought to have been gone. Medicine has done marvelous work over the years and we've profited from it but it is going to have to change or our grandkids and their offspring will be unable to afford to go to a doctor. I don't know a solution that will satisfy everyone without a cost. juanita > Yes, I have. a perscription that the Humana doesn't cover a couple > years ago was around 25 dollars, and had it filled again and it was > 75. I couldn't believe it. I have Humana for prescriptions and seems > they mostly just cover meds you can get the fake one. Even my pain > meds, that is the ganeric one and it is three times as much as in > Dec. Really makes me mad. Every one can have ins. well how the heck > you supposed to be able to pay for all this. It has always been > available if you could afford. But Obama will save us. Crap. Louise > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Crim" <ddcrim@gmail.com> To: > "an-internet-family" <an-internet-family@googlegroups.com> Sent: > Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:49 AM Subject: [ML] Grrrrrr > > > > Has anyone else noticed a change in your health insurance benefits? > > > > A couple of days ago, Sherry called MDA to refill her prescription > > for her chemo-drug... I still don't understand why we can't find a > > local pharmacy that can get that drug, but that's how it goes.. > > Anyhow, yesterday the Rx was delivered via FedEx... when she opened > > the enclosed bill, she discovered that instead of a $50 co-pay, we > > were billed for $200.... YIKES! Sherry seemed to remember that at > > her work she did get something from BCBS about possible changes... > > Next week I will have to have all my scripts refilled... I'm almost > > afraid to find out what that will cost... Anyone else seen surprises > > in their co-pay? > > > > The Dougster.. :-)*
When we were young our family doctor-delivered babies, took out appendix etc., charged a dollar or two for an office or home visit! Prescriptions were cheap and uncomplicated. The with insurance companies, doctors specializing in certain fields and people getting sue crazy-it forced everything to go up-our doctor stopped delivering babies and doing surgeries(such as circumcisimns etc.) I bet many of us knows a person or two that threatens to sue over all kinds of things most of us overlook! I know several and it really annoys me. These are petty stupid things they sue over and WE have to pay for our doctors to be covered by insurance. My niece was going to be a Pediatrician but is a Nurse Practitioner because of the liabilities a doctor has! I understand many young people shy away for being doctors for this reason---it is a sorry state of affairs that the few jerks that are trying to get money from lawsuits cause all of this to happen. Off the soapbox ! Helen
My family doctor told me just a few weeks ago that his daughter is going to be an opthamalogist. He's in family practice and told me 50 cents out of every dollar he makes goes for liability insurance but eye doctors don't have that need or requirement. Apparently there aren't as many lawsuits involving them. juanita > When we were young our family doctor-delivered babies, took out > appendix etc., charged a dollar or two for an office or home visit! > Prescriptions were cheap and uncomplicated. The with insurance > companies, doctors specializing in certain fields and people getting > sue crazy-it forced everything to go up-our doctor stopped delivering > babies and doing surgeries(such as circumcisimns etc.) I bet many of > us knows a person or two that threatens to sue over all kinds of > things most of us overlook! I know several and it really annoys me. > These are petty stupid things they sue over and WE have to pay for our > doctors to be covered by insurance. My niece was going to be a > Pediatrician but is a Nurse Practitioner because of the liabilities a > doctor has! I understand many young people shy away for being doctors > for this reason---it is a sorry state of affairs that the few jerks > that are trying to get money from lawsuits cause all of this to > happen. Off the soapbox ! Helen > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Put a little perspective on cost. Fifty cents might equate to two days today or say 1920 prices 25 cents a day or even after ww2 $1.25 per hour. Inflation and false inflation even more(greed) will kill us all. Bud. Prescription costs are getting more expensive because everyone wants more and more. I remember my mother going to our family doctor and him stepping into his little room beside this office and mixing a bit of "this" and a bit of "that" in a bottle, shaking it, handing it to mom and said "50 cents". > Yes, I have. a perscription that the Humana doesn't cover a couple > years ago was around 25 dollars, and had it filled again and it was > 75. I couldn't believe it. I have Humana for prescriptions and seems > they mostly just cover meds you can get the fake one. Even my pain > meds, that is the ganeric one and it is three times as much as in > Dec. Really makes me mad. Every one can have ins. well how the heck > you supposed to be able to pay for all this. It has always been > available if you could afford. But Obama will save us. Crap. Louise > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Crim" <ddcrim@gmail.com> To: > "an-internet-family" <an-internet-family@googlegroups.com> Sent: > Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:49 AM Subject: [ML] Grrrrrr > > > > Has anyone else noticed a change in your health insurance benefits? > > > > A couple of days ago, Sherry called MDA to refill her prescription > > for her chemo-drug... I still don't understand why we can't find a > > local pharmacy that can get that drug, but that's how it goes.. > > Anyhow, yesterday the Rx was delivered via FedEx... when she opened > > the enclosed bill, she discovered that instead of a $50 co-pay, we > > were billed for $200.... YIKES! Sherry seemed to remember that at > > her work she did get something from BCBS about possible changes... > > Next week I will have to have all my scripts refilled... I'm almost > > afraid to find out what that will cost... Anyone else seen surprises > > in their co-pay? > > > > The Dougster.. :-)* http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message