read this letter to the editor in my paper re: "Obamacare"...

[w8liftinglady]

and help me apply intelligently(you know my brain isn't working right)

http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2010/03/28/opinion/doc4baef2d325a97052479372.txt

Are you ready for this? The Obama health care?

I have already had a dose of it and you ain’t going to be happy either. Last Wednesday I called in a prescription for a re-fill on my blood pressure medicine. Aveliade, $93 and change. Went by the drug store Friday morning to pick it up. Guess what? I carry medical care insurance only. Nothing on drugs. (We felt like we could pay for the drugs but we could not pay a hospital/doctor bill.) The clerk ask me if such n’ such was my address, and it was. I wondered why he did this, he had waited on me lots of time. Then the bomb shell fell. That will be $196 and change. I nearly lost my teeth. I asked him to open the sack and see if that was the right drug and the right amount (30 pills) it was.

I asked what happened he said “it went up.” “Surely not that much.” But the druggist said that was right. I told him I was not going to take the bottle. I told him to give me 10 pills ... he did and that cost me $36 and change. Now I have just a few days to see the doctor and see if he can give me something less expensive. Or find a drug store that sells drugs at a discount price.

Today is Saturday, tomorrow (Sunday) we will know if the Obama nightmare becomes law. We may have to revert back to seeing a vet, like in the olden days. I am not knocking the vet ... animals need doctors too, but let’s face it, he can’t force animals to buy his insurance.

[cbdo2007]

1. There is no way to respond to this.

Unfortunately, the Repube complaints are so ridiculous that it's impossible to come up with a valid response. That is sort of how they're winning here. They can spread as many lies as they want and there is no convincing them the lies aren't true because they have so many people out there fanning their flames.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. fact free creation of letters. Perhaps, your editor has a sense of humor

and published the letter to make the point that people were seriously misled by the GOP.

It reminds me of a guy writing an angry letter in Indiana, about the possible imposition of that socialist evil, Daylight Savings Time. He swore that giving his crops an extra hour of sunlight during the day would ruin him. That extra sun would burn his crops out.

[w8liftinglady]

10. He is a Repub,one of the few "good" ones

He prints all letters-which makes our editorial page one of the more lively ones in North Texas(Hey-it sells papers)

[WolverineDG]

3. Sooo, it's all Obama's fault they didn't buy insurance

that included prescription drugs? I love how these "personal responsibility" folks never take responsibility for their own actions.

dg

[coti]

4. This could very well be true, and I believe Cenk from TYT has talked about it.

The pharmaceutical companies are raising their prices. The Obama Administration had an assurance from them that they would cut costs by so many billions (80?) of dollars by such and such a time, in return for not allowing drug reimportation or Medicare price negotiations, but they turned around and immediately jacked up prices anyway.

[laughingliberal]

8. Actually, the only promise from the drug companies was to start closing the donut hole in Medicare D

They did not promise to bring prices down but only to put $80 billion over ten years into closing the donut hole in Medicare part D. It was chump change for the industry and protected them from facing a new law allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices or a law allowing reimportation.

[coti]

13. Yeah, I couldn't remember exactly what they promised.

All I remembered was Cenk mentioning that they immediately decided the best thing to do after that would be to raise prices, and that they were going to end up making more money off the deal anyway.

[Richardo]

5. The earliest ANY provision of the PP&HCA Act will go into effect is August.

This dillweed just got smacked in the face with WHY he needs 'ObamaCare'. What an idiot.

[SPedigrees]

17. That would be the precise counter to the crazed drivel in the letter above. nt

[kentuck]

6. If he can get 10 pills for $36 dollars...?

and the usual prescription is for $93...and they want to charge him 196.00...why not go back 3 times and get 10 pills each time??

[lame54]

11. it's teabagger math - much like teabagger grammar

[Not Me]

7. I call BS...the math doesn't add up.

Even if the cost were $196 for 30 pills, how would it be $36 for 10?

[laughingliberal]

9. True. 3 X 36 is only $108. nt

[EC]

12. The idiot transposed the numbers

It should have been 63.00, either the druggest read it backwards or the writer did...

[maglatinavi]

14. drug costs re insurance

Soon I'll be 80. So far I have medicare and a medigap insurance (AARP) to cover the 20% medicare doesn't cover. Luckily I enrolled in the D Drug insurance and I pay very little for my medications. If I hadn't enrolled I would be without important medications... and as Rep. Grayson said..."died". This article doesn't sound like it is true...buying in installments seem to be the way
:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:
by the way, there is insurance for vets also...:yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks:

[yesphan]

15. So,

He wrote this letter to the editor BEFORE the bill became law. Hmmmmmm.

[w8liftinglady]

16. I thought that was the way I read it,too...

[petersjo02]

18. I had a similar experience recently

when I renewed my prescription for Lipitor at local pharmacy(no RX insurance, pay for our drugs upfront). Many of our prescriptions run $10 for a 90-day supply, so good for us. Lipitor isn't one of them. Price had nearly quadrupled since last refill. I asked the pharmacist why, and he said the pharmaceutical company had raised their prices as of January 1, 2010. This price hike has absolutely nothing to do with Obamacare. Lipitor goes generic at some point in 2010, so the drug company is just trying to rake in as much profit as possible before generic alternatives finally become available in the U.S. (as they are in every other country in the world already). Another word for that to describe big Pharma would be greed. I told my pharmacy I'd get my Atorvastatin from Canada in the future: cost from Canada about a buck a pill instead of $4.00/pill in U.S. Works for me.