re: Post Medicare Age Drugs

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Look into a membership pharmacy that will operate outside insurance or otherwise offer special pricing. You’ll likely need to find one in your state, but basically you pay a membership fee and get your drugs at a low cost or free (depending on the med). Walgreens and Kroger both have prescription savings memberships. Look up pharmacies in your area. When I looked there isn’t a massive savings on the particular drug you need, but it’s less than $1,000 a month at some, which is at least better than what you pay now.

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Thank you!

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I served in the military and paid into the Medicare and social security system my entire life. You sound like a spoiled arse trust fund baby.

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LOL not a trust fund kid at all just saved and invested during my own military career. Well into your 40s there was no Medicare prescription drug plan. How otherwise capable people wait until their 60s to figure this stuff out then complain about the system is beyond me. You paid into this system. Your taxes would have been much higher if all seniors had been getting full drug coverage all along. Now that youre drawing off the system you want it to becomes more generous doubt you were squawking for higher taxes whike working. Instead, just as boomers approached retirement we got the largest increase in Medicare coverage (adding somwthing like $500+ billion to the costs over first decade if I recall) and somehow thats not enough.
I scoff at most the boomer memes but this is why some younger folks are frustrated at ya'll.

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You sound like a VA disability ranger. WHats your percentage of "disability"?

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Zero disability. What’s your disability?

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Should have known better that people being decent to each other is lost on your generation.

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When you were age 20-40 years old and healthy, did you pay an exorbitant amount of money monthly for health insurance?

I really don’t blame the young healthy folks for being perturbed about having to pay a crazy amount for monthly health insurance, just to fund the 1.3k/month cost of a drug.

Especially when said drug is for something like diabetes, with multiple generic drugs available for $4/month or less. Particularly when we know this drug is not an initial choice for management of DM, but is often prescribed that way due to the weight loss side effects.

If it was 1.3k/month for a life saving cancer treatment, no one would bat an eye.

Does she have I gave myself fat diabetes or born with it diabetes

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Whatever government moron came Up with this , deserves worse than torture

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Not sure if he wrote that part of the bill, but you can thank this Louisiana guy for spearheading Medicare Part D coverage:



Not only did he spearhead Medicare Part D, after leaving Congress he worked for years as the CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and helped steer the agency as it helped Congress write the laws for Obamacare to the pharmaceutical industry’s liking.

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Once you have reached maximum out of pocket (use to be $3600) she’ll be in the catastrophic phase and copays will be really cheap or possibly zero.

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The rest of us with $6000 deductibles are paying for it. You’re welcome.

The thread is about costs to people on Medicare I believe.
The coupon you attached indicates people on a government program are not eligible.
There are other fairly expensive meds that have “0” dollar deductible programs,,, as long as your not on Medicare, Repatha is one of them.

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