Even The Insured Will Soon Be Paying Much More…
What You Don’t Know About Your Health Insurance, Could Soon Be Costing You Thousands. — by Catherine Morgan (cross-posted at The Care2 Election Blog)
Even if you have health insurance, you may see your prescription drug costs rise higher than your monthly mortgage. Yes, you heard me right. You could be paying $20 a month for your prescription medicine today, and hundreds (or even thousands) tomorrow.
This is a story that has been developing for years (thanks to the Bush administration), but for some reason has gotten little to no attention from the media. I wonder if that could have anything to do with all the money the media collects from the pharmaceutical industry in advertising (over 33 billion just in 2004)? Conflict of interest? Even after an article in The New York Times became one of the most emailed stories yesterday, I was only able to find one (25 second) video clip from a major news outlet covering this story.
So, how will this affect you? Here is some of the information you aren’t hearing about until you get to the pharmacy…
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