(03-29-2024, 09:15 PM)kdog Wrote: I got 2 1/2 years to collect early retirement, which I may hold out longer to get more money. It feels like almost getting to the finish line and a big sink hole opens up just before reaching it .
I was going to take an early retirement, but when the time came, I discovered that the increase in income would cause my insurance to collapse, meaning I'd have to pay for any medical stuff out of pocket. Since one of my prescriptions is nearly 700 dollars a month, that would almost negate the value of having any retirement income - it would just wipe out a huge chunk of it as if it never existed to begin with, so why jump through the hoops of claiming it if it's just not going to show up any how?
The medicine in question is Eliquis. They fought in court and won an extension to their monopoly so that they could continue raking in robbery levels of income from it. There are generics available at substantially less cost, and I mean SUBSTABTIALLY less cost, like 1/20th or less of the cost of Eliquis, but the courts prevented them from going to market so that Bristol-Meyers Squibb could continue raping sick folks' wallets in the name of profit.
In a couple more years, their monopoly runs out - again, unless they manage to extend it again - so I'll have to wait for that time to come and see if I'll be able to both eat AND stay alive, both at the same time.
So, here I sit, just twiddling my thumbs and humming to myself.
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