Hey New York times, way to be ahead of the curve

The New York times has decided to do a major 'above the fold' first page article on something most of us already know. It's hard to pay for prescription medications. Although they spent way to much time talking to old fat cats whining about the cost of Lipitor and not enough time talking to people with real illnesses. My Dad is taking a medication to help with his high cholesterol. Not Lipitor, and is using diet and exercise to reduce it.


Skipping required prescription drugs

Me, I can't use diet or exercise to reduce my illness, suicide might be a valid cure, but it's one I am not yet ready to explore. Maybe after the dog passes away.

So in a little bit, provided my brain keeps working, I'll write a little bit more about Plan D. Today I am going to provide a chart showing how the prices for individual prescriptions change every month, depending on several strange and hard to chart factors.

So far I have added to the chart, when in the month the prescription is filled, how much money has been spent on prescriptions in the month already, the class of drug.

It takes an engineer, a healthy engineer to keep track of all of this. If I was a healthy engineer, I would not have these problems.

**Anyway my comments to The Times****

I use to be one of those super healthy, hard working big salary people this administration loves. Or in my case loved. I have lupus, and no amount of healthy living prevented it from happening, nore will it go away if I start eating right and exercising more.

I take 12 different medications a month. Because we can't fix lupus, so they just treat the symptoms. The last real research done on lupus was done during building of the Panama Canal.

Plan D is a joke, by the end of the year I will have personally spent close to maybe even over six thousand dollars on my prescriptions. Plan D will have spent at best four thousand. Also plan D costs me 600 dollars a quarter to be a member of. I received a letter from Plan D yesterday, telling me that because of my prescription expenses next year it will cost me more. This goes along with my Medi gap coverage dropping me for 09.

Lupus is fatal, I'm starting to look forward to that. At least in the end I get morphine. I am in the middle of posting the math of Plan D on my blog. Stop by and watch.

http://fibrowitch.blogspot.com/

And now Byron wants a walk. not that I can,