Yes, Carol, I agree with you. We should also have free access to prescription medications from any market in the world. I thought we were in a "free market" capitalist economy. All the medicare clients I see (and there are a bunch) have medications they can not pay for or must skip certain months or forgo altogether, because they can't afford drugs when they make 550 a month on disability and can barely keep themselves in gas, apartment rent, and food.

Most have friends who look after them and they work under the table. I am constantly looking for sources for medications. We use all sorts of programs such as VR, Center for Independent Living, Easter Seals, and drug company programs for the indigent.

Health care in the United States is a nightmare for the poor. And try being an indigent aids patient in a small town like Tallahassee. Aids patients move away from here because the services are so spotty. We didn't even have a doctor that specialized in aids related infectious diseases for two years when the major one got burned out and left town.   If you are a medipass patient youu might get twothirds of the antivirals you need in any given month.

signed,
disgusted and outraged harpgirl


(New sources of info for patients are welcome folks. )