My wife and I have insurance through the Healthcare Marketplace (Obama care) where they pay most of the premium amount. Without any notification, they stopped paying and the insurance company dropped us, even though I paid our amount. My wife found out by trying to have a prescription refilled and told at the pharmacy that we had no insurance. I take 70 MG of Sprycel and the cost for a 30 day supply is $7000.00 without insurance. I got everything worked out with the Healthcare Marketplace and my insurance carrier so we're good for now.
I am suppose to go on Medicare soon and pay for a Part D plan to pay for prescription medicine but the insurance only pays 75% of the cost. I don't think I can pay 25% of $7000.00 every month. Any advice on this matter will be greatly appreciated. I wish I could stay on the Obama care plan I have now, as it has been affordable for my wife and I. Marco Rubio was on TV this morning saying if he were elected president, he would repeal Obama care. Many GOP presidential hopefuls have said the same thing. I know the plan is not perfect but it has worked well for my wife and I for the last 2 years and made it affordable to purchase a Tier 5 drug. James in Texas On Friday, October 30, 2015 at 6:16:02 PM UTC-5, Suzieq wrote: > *Hello my fellow Survivors: * > > *Well, my hubby and I had a great big surprise when he went to refill his > prescription for blood pressure medicine a couple of weeks ago. He found > out that we had been dropped by our previous insurance as of September > 30th. Wasn't that sweet......no notice what so ever! Thank goodness that I > have a few bottles of Gleevec on hand as it came time to reorder. Anyhoo, > he put us in for COBRA and got us started as of last Friday. When we sold > our business last spring, the new owners were to keep our insurance going > for at least one year after the sale, but that did not happen. You cannot > trust people today to do what they tell you they will do. At least we > found out in the time period to get the other started. Now, we are > covered for the next 18 months. * > > * Here is what I wanted to tell you that I learned.......my husband had me > call to order my Gleevec as there was a chance that I was still covered. > The pharmacy tech told me that "no, I wasn't until Dec. 1st" (not true > now, have a new card) anyway, I just asked her what the cost of 100mgs. of > Gleevec for one month would cost if one had to pay cash money. She checked > and came back on and said "$3000". I was stunned.....I told her that I > sure thought that the price would have gone down, instead it is like it > went up more since I first started taking it. The last price I had while I > was still doing 400mgs. and that was around 4 and 1/2 years ago, it was > getting really close to that $6000 mark for 1 month. The reason I knew the > cost, the stupid pharmacy I ordered thru the mail from included a receipt > of the cost. I always thought it odd for them to do that since I paid a > co-pay of 25$ back then, but oh well, it was interesting to watch the > price rise each month. I kept thinking that Novartis wouldn't have dibs > on the Patent any longer by now and the price would drop and Generic brand > would be in the works. Guess that is what I get for thinking! :)* > > Let's all keep looking up! > > Suzieq > > > -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
