Controlling the cost of meds
Posted By: Lisette DuBois 
Date Posted: September 21st, 2009 Category: Cost & Quality
physicians love patients who listen and comply with the advice they have been given. A patient who completes their round of antibiotics or who continues to keep their follow up appts makes the physicians job that much easier than a patient who continues to make bad choices with their health. But what happens to the group of patients that want to comply and improve their health but financially can not?? Medications and healthcare must be made affordable to every kind of patient!
Comment By: Kelly Davis
Date & Time: September 23, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Still there are people who can afford medications as well as health insurance and choose not to have it.
For example, I know a successful husband/wife that are a self-employed couple that chose not to purchase any health insurance – not even a lower cost insurance program covering hospitalization only. Instead they chose to buy a new $350K home, two new Hummers, etc. Of course, they have the right to choose to live their lives in that manner and to spend their hard-earned money as they wish. However, in discussing this with them they stated that yes, they could, based on their income level, easily afford the monthly health insurance payments but would rather spend their money on their lifestyle, possessions and travel.
Yet, they along with many others have made the same type of choices and are categorized as uninsured. Although the majority of "uninsureds" don't fall into this category, there are more than most people think.
My point is, not all people categorized as "uninsured" are in dire financial circumstances. And some of this goes back to personal choices and personal responsibility.
Comment By: Mary Frances Stoecklin
Date & Time: June 15, 2010 at 6:40 pm
I have trouble getting a precription for Zofran. After getting several positional vertigo, I asked my GP for one 30 day prescription, so i can take the med when I'm out of my apt. So far, my vertigo has struck when I was at home,but I guess fear of having a spell while outside made it return. I wasn't approved, but a friend of my family's – also on Medicare – got this. Medicare Part B didn't approve me, but approved my friend.
These and other drugs should have generic forms, so low income people – and lately, the growing middle-class, should all get the same opportunities. Cutting Medicare's prescriptions and doctors accepting Medicare will cause early death and
more problems in ER rooms. Doctor's hands are tied and we patients are the losers
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Comment By: Rebekah
Date & Time: June 17, 2010 at 11:55 am
Mary Frances-
Zofran does have a generic form, it's called ondansetron. Maybe you got someone from Medicare who didn't take the time to look it up… I don't know anything about Medicare myself, but if they said the name-brand drug itself is not covered, ask them to look again under the generic name.