Re: Republicans think destroying UAW is worth a depression

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:43:12 +0000 (UTC), rkshullat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<rkshullat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(b) unless the providers are bleeding cash every time I visit,
anyone without insurance is getting royally screwed. Most providers
require people without insurance to pay in advance,

That's reasonable, if there's much risk that the patient will refuse
to pay. It's not as if the repo man can be sent around to seize his
treatment.

and pay double or more what the insurance company reimburses.

I would demand at least as good a deal as the insurance company gets,
or I'll walk.

But I'm skeptical. Several chains are offering numerous generic drugs
for $4 per month, and not just to insured people. I keep getting ads
offering eye exams for $29.

Medications are, of course, highly variable in price, even generics. I
take one prescription drug that's just over $10 per 100. One of my
wife's is on the $4 list, but the other is about $50 for 90.

Indeed.

I have noted in the past that the generic for Zofran (one of the
anti-emetics I am on) costs $16.60 a PILL.
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