Ya know, my prescriptions today? Cost $350. Now, I’ll get a big chunk of that back once I get up the energy to deal with my insurance company and ask them to help with out-of-network prescriptions, and I’m very lucky both to have insurance and to be able to afford that cost up-front while I wait for insurance to pay. But soooo many people in this country are NOT in the same situation. They couldn’t possibly pay that much for prescriptions. And I’m feeling soooo much better already now that the right meds are in my system and are starting to work. “Thank you, Lord,” said my mother. And it’s true. Thank you, Lord, that I have the right meds and that I can pay for them.
I don’t understand how anyone could not support universal health care in this country. How can it be less of an economic strain to have millions of people running around with untreated illnesses? How could anything be more important than a healthy populace?
