Costs most when least able to pay
I thought I could afford my prescriptions while I was looking for a new job. I was horrified to discover that the “cost” amount listed on the drugstore’s paperwork for a drug when you have insurance is not the same amount as the “cost” amount when you are not insured! That means that when you have no job, and so usually no health insurance, that you have to pay the most when you can least afford it. To make a bad thing even worse, there seems to be no way to know what the difference is between the “cost” as shown for the insurance companies and the real cost when you have to buy them yourself.
Melissa N.,Virginia