Rumpleforeskin: Do You Have Health Insurance?

rollergirl · 2005-06-03, 05:42 PM

We buy our own plan from BCBS. It's quite staggering cost-wise.

Edit. Read Stu's post.

My Husband has unholy allergies. He's had every test possible and each year we have to beg to get a NEW script for
All egraD or something strong so he can even breathe. This year the insurance companies are trying something different. Docs perscribe meds and the pharmacy calls you and says..."BCBS won't cover Allegra so they 'RE-PRESCRIBED' you Claritin-it's over the counter. We've been on Claritin and it doesn't help, but don't you find it twisted that the insurance company can CHANGE your perscription to a completely other medication, because they don't like how expensive it is."

We're still fighting with them to get it and darn it, if we didn't find it online from canada for 30 bucks.
If BCBS oks it, we'd have to pay 160 dollars for it from Welgreens, and they just raised our deductable for RX to 2000 a year. We used to pay 30 bucks a RX.

We pay over 6 hundred a month for family insurance.

View Poll Results: Do you have health insurance?
Yes, I have an individual plan or through my own Company. If there is a difference.	30	31.25%
Yes, I get it through my other job or my spouses job	26	27.08%
No, but I am looking	27	28.13%
No, and I don't care about it	13	13.54%
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2005-06-03, 05:42 PM	#37
rollergirl I'm going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 82	We buy our own plan from BCBS. It's quite staggering cost-wise. Edit. Read Stu's post. My Husband has unholy allergies. He's had every test possible and each year we have to beg to get a NEW script for All egraD or something strong so he can even breathe. This year the insurance companies are trying something different. Docs perscribe meds and the pharmacy calls you and says..."BCBS won't cover Allegra so they 'RE-PRESCRIBED' you Claritin-it's over the counter. We've been on Claritin and it doesn't help, but don't you find it twisted that the insurance company can CHANGE your perscription to a completely other medication, because they don't like how expensive it is." We're still fighting with them to get it and darn it, if we didn't find it online from canada for 30 bucks. If BCBS oks it, we'd have to pay 160 dollars for it from Welgreens, and they just raised our deductable for RX to 2000 a year. We used to pay 30 bucks a RX. We pay over 6 hundred a month for family insurance.