The problem with cancelling Amazon [View all]
I cancelled my WaPo subscription, and have mixed feelings about that. I do not think Jeff Bezos cares at all about the paper, and I do worry about the good reporters there. However, there is a use for Amazon that makes it impossible for me to quit. I get my meds there.
My husband and I have been on Medicare for two years now. Not wanting to go down the road of Medicare Advantage, we picked the best gap plan G, and a decent drug plan. Our premiums for Medicare, the supplemental plan G, and the drug plan cost us $844.00 a month. Way more than I ever paid for similar coverage on the ACA. The drug plan is going up $80.00 for the two of us next year. And guess what? It doesn't cover either of the drugs we are on.
My husband uses an COPD type inhaler. He uses the generic, yet NO drug plan covers it. Nothing else works for him. I use a specific HRT drug, and that is also not covered, not even the generic. I guess neither of them are required to live, so do without. We now buy them both through Amazon pharmacy without using insurance. His medication costs 50 dollars a month, and mine 47. Without Amazon, we would be paying 300 and 100 a month respectively.
As much as I would like to quit Amazon, I don't know what we would do without them. This also begs the question of why Amazon can offer these drugs at reasonable prices, yet the insurance company I pay premiums for cannot.
It just seems as if the game is rigged, and we are dependent on the pittance the corporations are willing to give us peons.
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