Sorry, need to vent for a bit. Today can just suck it. It started off well enough, but I got my neck/upper back out of whack either while sleeping or *ahem* morning amusements. Now I can't really turn my head well. I stopped at the drug store to get drugs and a stick on heating thingy, and then spent 10 panicked minutes searching the car for my wallet, which I finally found.
You know? One of those days. And I can't afford to go home, so I'm working as carefully as I can.
Oh, and just found out that a friend of mine and Nora's has cancer. So FUCK CANCER.
It IS retroactive, and we are sending in the form today, but my insurance is terminated for about 10 days until our COBRA election forms go through. I know medical care is retroactive under our plan, but I'm not sure about Rx.
Scrappy, even without insurance, if you're willing to have the generic of ambien, it shouldn't cost much--maybe $30:
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Hooray for morning amusements, at least?
Less than $10 at the CostCo pharmacy.
Excellent news. Thanks, hivemind.
{runs off to call Dr. for refill}
Costco's pharmacy seems to kick everyone else's asses when it comes to prices.
(Relatedly, my aunt forwarded me an e-mail about the markup on drug prices, and how some drugs are "marked up" more than 3,000% [not a typo] from the cost of manufacturing the active ingredient. And I chose not to reply that I am stunned by her willful ignorance of other costs such as: inactive ingredients, pill bottles, labels on the bottles, ink to print the labels on the bottles, people who pack the bottles in boxes, cost of boxes, people who drive the truck to get the boxes to the pharmacies, gas and insurance for those trucks, cost of those trucks, people who work in the pharmacy and stock the shelves and dispense the prescriptions accurately so YOU DON'T DIE, cost of the physical pharmacy building, cost to keep the lights and heat on in the pharmacy, etc., etc., etc.
But no, drug companies are the devil because they don't charge 1 cent a pill for Lipitor.)
(I should note that I think some drugs are overpriced, but it's just plain ignorant to pretend that Pfizer should be charging the customer literally ONLY what the cost of the active drug ingredient is.)
I don't know if it applies to Ambien, but Target is really touting their $4 generic prices.
bonny, I got your e-mail, and I just haven't had time to respond because work is kicking all of our asses. (And having my ass kicked would be easier to deal with it my sinuses weren't made of ALL THE EVIL.)
