Shoreline

Hey Izzy, I went years with no script insurance and simply went without meds that weren't just quality of life but life saving meds. When you don't have the money to pay for them and don't meet the rediclously low standards set by state medicaid programs you have to consider every avennue, including getting a divorce just on paper to qualify if it's your spouses income preventing you from qualifying.

Frankly I was lucky I didn't die when I couldn't afford Plavix, Lipitor and sevreral other heart meds after my heart attack. This wasn't quality of life issue it was a rolling the dice of life issue. When that jerk off senetor said that she found policies that covered meds from 20 to 120 bucks a month when the whole medicare part D program was being created, it made me want to puke, as if there are options for everyone and nobody falls through the cracks.

There certainly is a system and a way to manipulate the sytem if so inclined. It seemed dong the right thing and making sacrifices, not having children you can't affoprd, actually getting married rather than reporting you don't know who the father of a child is when they live with you is something that's rewarded in our country. The more kids you have, the more mistakes you make, the more you lie, the more benefits you get. Quite a sytem we have for the indegent. When if someone was truly indegent they wouldn't be able to afford an actual mailing address in my city to apply for these benefits.

As far as pain meds, methadone is the only affordable med for those that fall through the cracks, as far as BT meds,generic dilaudid and morphine are fairly cheap, but may not work as well. When you have to choose betwen meds and food, the average person chooses food.

We never got that paper divorce but we did realize we couldn't have more children at the age of 30. I can't say I still don't have great resentment for going without meds for years when you have our elective officials acting as if healthcare is afordable for anyone that truly seeks it and avalable for those that truly need it, "the indegent". A truly indegent person wouldn't even have an address to apply for benefits in our state where anything over 550 a month is considered meaningful and substantial earnings. 550 doesn't cover half the rent in the worst neighborhood in my neck of the woods.

A big part of my decsion to get the pump was based on lack of prescription insurance. Meds in the pump are covered by medicare, not by the new part D prescription benefit package. As crazy as it sounds, you may be better off med wise to quit your job, get a paper divorce and let the state pay for it all. Fraud has worked for generations for many americans.

Unforortuately the sytem isn't set up to reward honesty, dignity, a work ethic, traditional values and the comon sense not to have more children than you can afford. Not that I advocate fraud, just another thing to burn your chaps a bit.

It certainly makes you wonder about the thousands in benfits some collect that have never paid a dime into the system or worked a day in their life because they got pregnent 3 times in high school and never reported who tha daddy was. Quite a sytem we have in our country. I guess when our elected officials have never had to decide between food or medicine, it's tough for them to understand the problem.

Good luck, Dave