Changes for the Average Gal, March 17, 2025. 387 words

In these changing times in government and status quo, the average person will have a policy change that will affect each person. My challenge occurred at the beginning of the year. My husband, John’s health provider changed. He retired from the postal service. The postal retiree’s were not allowed to sign up for the health program that we have had for over eleven years. Instead, we were given a new program created just for this group.
We were switched from a HMO plan with Priority Health that had no co-pays and paid for most drugs to A Blue Cross/ Blue Shield that was suppose to be comparable in coverage. Instead we were told in January that we didn’t sign up for Medicare, part d to include drugs, we would have to wait until February 1st to have coverage. The problem? I have been on a drug for thin bone density for nine months, given as a daily shot. Tymlos, couldn’t be ordered from our initial source. I was running out of the drug. The new provider kept asking for a new prescription. My doctor wrote a new script that was good for two years.
Then the CBS Specialty Pharmacy needed more information. I did finally receive the drug after using the injection every other day to extend the drug. What was paid for last year was now 350 dollars a month. We thought,”Well that should be the end of the problems.”
When we went to order the drug the next month, we ran into the same problem with ordering. A drug that I have been on for nine months was ordered for thirty days !
Back to the phones, transferred from Blue Cross to CBS Pharmacy and medicare. As we called and waited, my drug was running low. The drug was sent with only one day’s supply left. We had ordered the refill the first day we could, 15 days before the supply ran out.
Again, the pharmacy had to receive a prescription again.
It is close to reordering the drug. I wonder if I will have issues again. Is this a result of a new program or downsizing of government ?
Egg prices, tariffs and stock market slump, one wonders what is next?
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