I BEG TO DIFFER.....

America needs to shape up and face the music instead of again playing musical chairs with attempts that only delay the inevitable. The medicine will get more bitter and last longer than if the tax manipulation stops.

It would also be much appreciated too if the lies would stop, like insisting letting the tax cuts expire is raising taxes........not really, it will restore rates to where they were before Bush caved in to the greed of the wealthiest, with the exceptions of Buffet, and Gates one and two.

Meantime, here is my reality.....I am facing a 650% increase in a drug that is essential as one of three used in my Big Three regimen to treat an uncommon lung disease I have. I have used this drug for six years and it is an old drug not some newly developed one, it is named ethambutol.
Medicare is changing it on the 2011 formulary from Tier 1 with a seven dollar co-pay to Tier 2 with a copay of forty-five dollars.

Further this drug is available on off shore web pharmacies at a price of only $00.81 (yes, eighty-one cents) for ten tablets of the strength scripted for my treatment, so for a three month supply it would cost under nine dollars instead of $135.00. (I take three 400 mg tablets three days per week.) This is why it is so infuriating that Medicare is prevented from negotiating drug prices by the deal with big pharma in writing legislation for Part D. Again an example of the greed of the corporate controlled government.........I will be forced to give up purchasing locally. Now what would you do?


graysmoke