It's so cheap!

[ssurgul]

Well, with the job still not turning permanent up here (not yet enough work to justify the cost, though somehow paying at least twice what it would cost normally is), my insurance has gone away. Yay.

While I search for an independent plan (Kaiser doesn't reach up here, unfortunately), I had to get a refill of Celexa last night. Without insurance (of which COBRA will run me over $300/mo.) it's about $85 for a month's Rx.

I'm SO in the wrong line of business. It's much more profitable to live off the backs of the suffering and sick.

Comments

[andreal.livejournal.com]

I dont know much about Celexa, but is there a generic option? My Buspar would have cost 100+, but the generic buspirone was only 35... of course, the pharmacy didnt inform me of this. The internet pharmacy, however, did - I was quite thankful.

[kurtmrufa.livejournal.com]

$85/month = $2.83/day = About the price of a latte, or of cable TV with internet & all the trimmings. I spend more than $85/month on beer & bowling.

So, my question(s) to you are

a) whether after rent, food, and heat you have $85/month,

b) and if you do, whether or not $3/day is worth it to you what benefits the drug provides.

If the answers to both of these questions is 'yes' I offer a reality check:

You'd maybe have a point if you were shelling out a couple thousand a month out of pocket for antiretrovirals or cancer drugs or something, or you were destitute, but to claim that you're somehow being oppressed for less than the price of retail caffiene (and for what I imagine is much better results than the caffiene - where would you be in 1960 when such things didn't exist?) hasn't got much traction with me.