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In reply to the discussion: Because I have pretty good medical insurance, I admit I paid little attention [View all]SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)the drug companies was I have heard several stories like this and I have my own...I have to take a very expensive medication to help with neuropathic pain from a spinal cord injury. I had tried a few times between 2003 & 2008 to get accepted into Pfizer's "Connection to Care" program for people like myself who can't afford to pay the $269 a month for the medication. The program's qualifications were written so that hardly anyone qualifies...you had to make less than $10K a year & you could not be on Medicare, Medicaid or have private insurance which basically excludes everyone. I made only what Social Security Disability pays & that was just over $13K a year & I was on Medicare A,B & D so of course I did not qualify.
However, late in the year 2009 after the so-called "secret deal" Obama had made with the drug companies & during the heated ACA "debate", it was rally Republican delay tactics, Pfizer changed their qualifications. I have no idea why they did? Now the qualifications were if you made less than $1800 a month & it did not matter I was on Medicare.
That alone saved me from losing my house...Not to mention after the ACA became law the so-called "doughnut hole" in Medicare Part D is slowly going away!
Thank-You President Obama!!!