Comments on: Study: Medicare coverage gap is forcing seniors to skip their meds

By: Betsy

Betsy — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:27:10 +0000

I totally agree, I worked for one of the largest pharmacy benefit organizations in the country on a speciality drug and in many cases patients would hit the coverage gap in the 1st month. I can tell you that these PBM’s that are out there do not care about patients, they only care about the almighty dollar. It is irrevelant that people go without medication or that they exhaust all of their savings in no time. Social Security does offer assistance to some, but you better not have a 401K or any kind of savings, or be fortunate enough to have a pension (we all know they pay us so much), because either one of them will disqualify you. It is obvious to me that the pharmacy industry had to design these laws of the coverage gap because they probably can afford to pay out $4400 every year, but the average person can not. It’s a terrible thing that people (human beings that are in pain) have to go without medication because of a stupid insurance company.

By: CallieO

CallieO — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:50:52 +0000

I am hoping that Obama will push for the rehauling of the healthcare system that he says is needed. Something needs to be done before none of us will be able to afford what we need.

By: Prescott

Prescott — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:37:06 +0000

To control the pain we must first go to the doctor because we can give him what is appropriate and what we need, such as oxycodone that I take is a medicine used to counter the pain of my back pain for years, but This was the prescribing doctor, I take it in moderation because I read in findrxonline.com is a pill that causes anxiety, and if you can not control it can affect your nervous system, we must always know what the physician and thus avoid setbacks …