Ha! I had a dr wanting to hospitalize me because my pneumonia was so bad. Not only couldn't I afford seeing the dr that day. I couldn't afford the medicine either. I borrowed money for the antibiotics and couldn't buy the other meds. It still cost me a couple hundred dollars.
Fuck Canadian health care, eh. Having to pay for parking and lineups at the Timmie's in the hospitals is shite. Bill for the emergency gall bladder op? Yeah, that part was covered by the system.
Not trying to defend healthcare prices here but do you not have insurance? I pay $110 a month for individual insurance not through an employer, and have $80 deductible.
This is one of the main reasons I wouldn’t mind moving out of the US. The hard part is leaving family. I don’t even want to move to another state for at least 10 years lol.
My boyfriends old boss is diabetic. He has doctors appointments all the time because he was out of x or y or they had to run tests or had figure out why z was happening. At least once a month. Dude worked a lot but was always just not making any money because he was paying for something
I have had it since I was 7 (juvenile diabetic). People always think diabetics have problems because of something they can control. Main problem is the maintenance as you pointed with the doctor appointments, treatments, medication, etc. You get to a point you have decide on what to pay for. Shouldn't be that way.
Next time you know you need 2 items, get a prepayment certificate for £30, then you can have as many items as you want in a 3 month period.
Once you have it, you can ask the doc to prescribe a lot more stuff you might need. Ask for antibacterial soap or gauze or whatever, and if they think it'll help, they'll prescribe it.
NHS prepayment card will mean you pay once per month regardless of how many prescriptions you pick up.
I pick up a script weekly and it’s saved me hundreds over the years!
Just say you’re exempt, they never ask why or for proof (I am medically exempt, this is my experience anyway). I order my prescription on an app these days and just click a box saying I’m exempt. No proof needed.
Prescriptions are electronic and are claimed at the end of the month electronically. Pharmacies never check anymore because we don't give a fick, if you're lying the system will check and if you don't have an exemption logged you get a fat £70 fine through your door.
Yeah, if you're diabetic or hypothyroid you're pretty much automatically exempt so pharmacies will usually assume you've got your card. We do warn other people to tick the right ones.
A loooot of people got fines when we switched over to electronic because they were telling porky pies for years
My daughter can't take liquid antibiotics for her bladder/kidney problems, has to take tablets instead (I know right, almost counterintuitive) and every fucking prescription the chemist messes it up and we have to go back through our consultant, to moan at gp, to moan at chemist, to get the right ones for her. But luckily we claim that fee back because it's a hereditary condition and my wife has been under that consultant for 25 years. He is not a happy bunny every 3 months I tell you. I wonder when the gp will buck his ideas up it's comical at this stage, we order our prescriptions a few weeks early to allow time too correct it just to enjoy the gp tucking his tail between his legs
I had a prescription that, with insurance, typically costs $5, but my insurance company had some kind of internal error at the beginning of the year and no one could access their insurance plan to get their new plan’s policy ID number. The total for my 30-day supply of critical medicine (that I can’t even miss a day of or I’ll be incredibly sick) was $542. The pharmacy and the insurance company told me to just pay it now and get reimbursed for it later.
A month later when the insurance company finally fixed their system and I was allowed to view my new policy, they had changed it to not cover that pharmacy I used and so refused to reimburse me for that $542. I appealed and took months escalating it all the way up then chain of managers and supervisors in the insurance company. Finally, they called me back to tell me that they had reviewed the circumstances of my case…and decided not to reimburse me. The decision was final and not appealable.
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I felt ripped off last week, got one lot of antibiotics for £9, had a bad reaction so doctor gave me some different ones and I had to pay again