Does anyone know of programs that help with prescriptions?

[valeriedl]

I'm on medicare but also have a prescription plan. I know here in the US you have to have medical insurance but I'm not sure if you have to have any type of insurance dealing with meds. I pay $35 a month for that and a percentage of the cost for my meds. Most of them cost between $30 and $50 but one is over $200. Do you know if they will still work if you have a prescription plan? I'm going to give them a call on Monday to see but wanted to know if anyone knew before I did this?

Also does it work with generics, which all the meds I'm taking are, or do they have to be name brand? If not can you have your neuro change you over to name brand so you can use it? Can you use more than one of these programs if a med you take isn't available from one of them?

Sorry for all the questions and thanks for any answers.

 

[Cint]

But with this "health care reform" in America, the cost of meds is even higher and the Drug Assistance Program isn't what it's cracked up to be.

I have to pay almost twice as much this year as I did last year for my name brand Keppra and Topomax. And that is even WITH insurance!!

Read about it here:
http://news.yahoo.com/drug-assistance-programs-theyre-cracked-130000114.html?soc_src=copy

 

[Nakamova]

My meds don't cost any more than they have in the past. But at least part of the problem isn't with the reforms, it's with the drug lobby which successfully lobbied congress to strip the Affordable Care Act of provisions that would lower drug prices.

 

[MMRocks]

Contact the manufacturer of the drug- they have programs to just Give you the drugs for free. You just have to fill out a form, and get your doctor to sign off on it. Mail it in, free meds every month.