Licensed Canadian Pharmacies Offer Lifeline to U.S. Seniors
The licensed Canadian pharmacy CanDrugstore.com called our attention to an article by Mary Pitt, a U.S. senior citizen who is fed up with high drug costs, along with the other expenses eating into the fixed incomes of the elderly. Writes Mary of the predicament facing many seniors:
You have simply lasted too long. You have lost dearly loved ones to death for first one reason or another; even nursing a dear life mate through an illness that took years to claim them. You have worked, budgeted, and micro-managed to keep your family sustained and, due to your own age and illness, are now condemned to a life of poverty.
Your one source of income has become the Social Security check that appears in your bank account on a monthly basis.
Finally, you are notified that this amount will be increased by a bit more than you have received in the past. You silently say a whispered prayer of gratitude to whatever God you believe in. But wait! In the notice that you receive, you are told that, indeed, the amount IS added to your allotment, but then you learn that the “premium” for your Medicare Part B has been increased to $96.40 a month and, lower down, the “premium” for your Medicare Part D has increased to $87.70, leaving you an increase of a whole forty dollars with only a few dollars over a thousand to pay all the expenses necessary to your continued existence.
The problems do not end there. When you go to the pharmacy to have your prescriptions re-filled, you learn that the insurance company has increased the “co-payment” by $10.00 on each medication. If you take four medicines, there goes your $40.00 a month net increase! Right into the voracious gaping maw of an insurance company’s bank account…
Mary calls on President Obama to increase the government safety net for seniors. CanDrugstore.com notes, however, that Obama already endorses one action that can save Pitt and other seniors money: buying their medications from licensed Canadian pharmacies.
As CanDrugstore.com explains:
The practice of buying [Canadian] drugs online was forbidden by the Bush administration, but it is actually endorsed under the Obama Healthcare Reform Plan, provided “the drugs are safe and the prices are lower outside the U.S.”
Canada has some of the strictest pharmaceutical standards in the world. Not only do patients save up to 70% with CIPA-certified international pharmacies, but they can rest assured that they’re getting medications that are also 100% safe.
Amen to that.
