Guess people who need their medicine can go fudge themselves?! /s

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
    27·
    5 hours ago

    My employer sends out a sheet every year that itemizes our entire comp package.

    The single most expensive is my insurance, a family EPO with a $750/1500 deductible.

    I pay $8200/yr. My employer pays nearly $33,000.

    Forty. Thousand. Dollars. For one family.

    Plus another $10k or so for Medicare and Dental and Vision.

    $50k, per year, all told.

    That is equal to roughly half of the median household income in my town.

    And then deductibles, co-pays, etc.

    And then…the fuckers…you put money in your FSA but can’t locate the receipt for reimbursement? Fuck off man, that money is for your employer now.

    Our President is fucking children with zero consequence, and I need to show a fucking receipt to reimburse a fucking $3 prescription, with my own money that I put there.

    After myself and my employer already paid $50k combined into the system?

    Fuck this country man.

  • Algernon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    7·
    4 hours ago

    This is fucked, of course. That is one of the new generation of antidepressants, but it isn’t radically different than some others that would be less expensive. If it’s the one you need to be on because it works, see if a GoodRX coupon reduces that.

    If that med isn’t for sure helping, there are cheaper options your pdoc should work with you to find. Your prescription coverage sucks ass if this is the cost of Trintellix, but you know that. We are a cesspool of a country.

    Don’t ask me what my specialty med costs. It’s exponents of this.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    21·
    7 hours ago

    I’m supposed to be on at least 12 different medications. I probably need four of them. I get one. Sometimes. 🙃

    • SuzyQ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
      7·
      4 hours ago

      I have, for my child. A local branch of a charity covers all of the pediatric oncology patients’ prescriptions so the families don’t have to worry about it. They also have prepaid cards that they give out monthly to families to spend on whatever they might need.

      It’s fucked that I’m moved to tears over this practically every time I fill his prescriptions before we head home. Having the medicine he needs shouldn’t have to send someone into bankruptcy if the charity branch didn’t cover it.

      I hate the price of prescriptions in this country.

      • sparkles@piefed.zipEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Arguing with the insurance about why you need medicine when you’re sick, while you get sicker is so twisted. I’m glad your family was shielded from that at the minimum.

  • Gork@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    6 hours ago

    That’s absolutely insane pricing.

    I take the exact same medication (sadly there’s no generic), and with my insurance it comes out to $175 for a 90 day supply.

    What is your pharmacy benefits manager? I had the hardest time when my health insurance used OptumRX (they can go the way of Mamma the Mia for all I care) as they refused to pay out for 6 months until all the hoops were jumped through.

  • BingBong@sh.itjust.works
    24·
    4 hours ago

    You have to work to get decent insurance. If you don’t work and you are Ill then you can die. 😘

    For the people that don’t understand, that’s not a statement in support of our bullshit healthcare or how tied you get to jobs in order to afford care.