Shafting the Patient

Shafting the Patient

9-23-11

The drug companies claim to want to help the people, and I am sure that there are people who work for said companies who want to do so, yet they make some of their most helpful drugs prohibitively expensive.
The health insurance companies claim to want to help the people who pay their (costly) premiums, and yet, they refuse to cover fully needed tests that doctors order and don’t want to cover fully the drugs that the patients need.
One pill of a *generic* migraine medication, costs nineteen dollars at the pharmacy down the street without insurance. The insurance company will only cover nine pills per month of this particular medication.
Both the drug companies and the insurance companies are making money hand over fist and the patient gets shafted.

This shit fucking sucks.