Thank god! I'm tired of seeing stories of people dying because they can't afford their meds!
I hope it'll effect my medication too, before insurance they're like $125 a pill
Before insurance my inhaler is like $350, and I need one every month.
I basically have to eat the cost If I'm going to travel for an extra, or if I lose one. A generic one with double the doeses from Canada is like $80, its ridiculous.
weird, I thought republicans would have done this at some point in the past 8 years of republican control of the house. They certainly complained about drug prices enough.
the idea of having to pay for your perscription medication is a terrible thought to me.
I get my medication free off the NHS and seeing people say they could pay like $100+ for a pill or $350 for an inhaler when I got a few just rolling around is just incredible in many ways. Like having to ration insulin because of the shutdown sounds like something from a third world country.
The United States is a third world country for the non-wealthy. The government is designed to favor the minority and special interests.
You see some absolutely ridiculous medication costs on the daily working in a pharmacy here, everything from $350 for a weeks worth of insulin to >$20,000 for chemotherapy medications. It's sad and it sucks because there's literally nothing a lot of us can do about it. I hope measures are made against this shit because its ludicrous that people need to go fucking bankrupt to continue living.
I'm right there with you. Just one of my medicines costs $540 per bottle, and that's not counting the other 6 I'm prescribed. Without insurance I would be fucked.
There's a medicine that I am meant to be trying, even my neurologist wants me on it, but it's so expensive that my insurance won't cover it, so I can't even try it. About $2400 a (monthly) dose.
It sucks knowing there is something new that's made exactly for someone like me, and that it could help with something I've had huge problems with since I was 5 years old, but I simply can't get it because money.
The easiest way to reduce prices would be to allow competition by allowing foreign manufacturers to import their drugs.
3 vials of Humalog insulin is over $800. Nothing has changed with it. It’s still using the same ingredient and it still has the same label around it. If it wasn’t for my insurance, there’s no way I’d be here typing this.
With insurance I'm fucked.
Due to some loopholes I'm able to use my parents for a long time though.
Yes I'm currently abusing that and I don't care.
Like a Ventolin inhaler? Holy fucking shitballs, they cost $7.50 in Australia.
A 30 pill bottle of my antidepressants was 340$ :v
I have BD, ADHD, GERD, GAD. If i didn't have insurance, i would be charged a flat rate of 125$ for a 4 minute visit with a psychiatrist, alongside 1200 or so for pills that help me manage my symptoms. a 30 day supply of one is literally 450$ without insurance, i have to be drug tested every other month, costing 120$. Means without insurance i'd be looking at 1600-1700 a month for medication to help me stop from going insane.
Rates for psychiatrists in Australia are about $600/hr, or at least mine is. My ADHD pills (90 day supply) cost me $20, antidepressants (30 days) was $12, i've never been drug tested by my psych (What the fuck?). From memory anxiolytics are usually less than $1/5mg benzodiazepene or equivalent. I'm unsure of the cost of your other meds (Lithium and a proton pump inhibitor?), but those are also just literally WHO essential medicines so i'd find it hard to believe they'd be more than a dollar a day at most. Seriously though, what the fuck is up with your doctor drug testing you? Is it because you're on drugs of dependence and they want to make sure it's actually in your urine and not just sold?
He mentioned he's on ADHD; I'm going through the process of being tested for it and if a doctor prescribes ADHD meds they'll want to make sure you're still on them and not selling them.
That's so stupid. I'm on ADHD meds as well and there's nothing for me. Even if you were selling them, couldn't you just save literally one for the day of the test? Amphetamines have a super short half life anyway so it'd be impossible to tell how much you've been taking anyway.
Nah, I have Ventolin and those are $30 after insurance, those are rescue inhalers for emergencies
I use Symbicort which is long acting albuterol and stimulant. When I first started using it, it felt like a miracle drug compared to the alternatives I've used like prednisone (which is just as much poison as medication).
The price has kept going up and a company is working on importing the Canadian generic version, but its a long process cause a drug that's perfectly safe in Canada might kill someone in the U.S for some reason.
Share your secrets... My 26th birthday is in 2 months and I'm still in school.
I'm in the same boat, except me being allowed to continue using my parent's insurance doesn't appear to be a loophole. We have the suspicion that it might be a mistake, because my dad's employer and his insurer both think the other is responsible for determining whether or not I get to stay on the plan. But we're sure as hell not going to bother them about it any further. I'm a drop in the ocean of money both companies are playing with. They can more than afford that kind of mistake.
PPI -->40$ a month BiPD Mood Stabilizer -->900-1300+ a month for 30 day supply, BPD AD ---> 80-200$, Secondary mood stabilizer/antipsychotic --> 260$ ADHD ---> 400-600$.
Turns out they raised the cost of the first mood stabilizer i was on from 400$ to 1300$ without insurance and with a coupon.
Drug testing is mandatory, on top of that, they additionally have a policy that if you are on any type of amphetamine, you cannot be cross prescribed addictive pain medication, Benzos, or any other addictive narcotic drug.
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