Hi James Don't bet your boots on anything to do with the Healthcare Marketplace (Obama care) or Medicare. Now I am not being political but first you have it and then it is gone and by the way I bet no one ever told you about it being gone until.....
I am on Medicare ever since I was afflicted with leukemia at the age of only 45. I then had to wait another two years to be accepted onto Medicare. We were really down to nothing left in our savings and many other things that put us in dire straights. From being an Electrical Engineer to nothing. We did everything in order to survive and through thick and thin. Years passed and we were able to continue with Medicare along with a supplemental policy. Fine, everything was working fine then without any notice and the powers to be decided to not pay anything for an in home picc line especially if it had to be tendered by a home care nurse. Now this was my second picc line. The first had to have an in line pump on it and of course also tendered by a home care nurse. The first was paid by Medicare and the 20% was paid by my supplemental policy. However for the second one since Medicare didn't pay anything then the supplemental policy didn't pay anything either. Yes things have changed. But also for some doctors that have always accepted Medicare. Two of my doctors have given up their practice and decided to join a hospital rather then with their practice. And you know things are about to get worse! All of this isn't the worst of it, but I can go on and on. You just have to learn what you can or can't do. I really wish you good luck. 18's, Marty On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:04 PM, perk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. 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