Adventures in Prescriptions!

Yesterday morning, I called in one of my diabetes medications, and the last of the birth control pills that keep the fibroids from giving me the 4 periods in 6 weeks that sent me off to the Doctor in the first place. I arranged to pick them up at 6pm, and went about my day.

On the way home from work, I stopped by the drugstore. I am fortunate to have a 24-hour pharmacy close to me. I bought a few things, went to the back, got 2 prescriptions, everything got put in a sack, and I was on my way.

I get home to find that NEITHER prescription was what I ordered, they were other, less useful medications (blood pressure and cholesterol, neither of which are actual problems, the doctor says they 'protect my kidneys') and one of the new prescriptions had only been filled last week, and, as a result, I'd paid out-of-pocket for it!

I brought them back in the morning, and the pharmacist was at a loss as to why these had been sitting in the pick-up bin. Nevertheless, he had filled what I'd called in yesterday morning, so it was ready.

As for the other pills, he will re-bill the insurance as soon as the refill date goes current and refund me the difference. So, in the end it all works out, but I just am at a loss as to what to think of the errors, and frustrated with an Insurance company that can't just pay for the freaking pills, which I need every month!

This is not even what Congress is debating - they are wanting (or not) to get most or all citizens on the insurance machine in the first place! They are not even trying to fix all the hundreds of ways that insurance itself is a bureaucratic monolith of red tape, networks and endless prescription tiers.

Yet I know that when I worked in Utah, it was being debated in the Legislature whether birth control pills should even be covered under insurance, since birth control is a 'choice'......this, while Viagra was clearly covered, because it treated a legitimate medical condition.....As if the fibroids that will cost me my Uterus at the end of the month give me a choice whether to take the pill, or not.

I am very happy on days like this to trade he breathtaking sunsets, and amazing Vietnamese food of Utah for the coverage of a medicine that prevents me from becoming anemic.