Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Medicine costs.

It always amazes me going to the apteka(Pharmacy) to fill Joan's prescriptions, all 5 of them for two months. The total cost was 93 zl($25). In the U.S. this would cost several hundred dollars. The rip-off(theft) of the pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. is well documented but nobody, senators, representatives, governments has put a stop to it yet. The general public is held hostage by the legal drug industry.

The cold weather continues, as expected, but there was sunshine today and only -2c so that was good.

A knock on the door this morning was from the receptionist downstairs in the doctors office where Joan had a 15;00 appointment. They wanted to change it to 13:00, tried to call us but got a message that Joan was offline although she wasn't. This has been a recurring problem with our Orange provider the last two weeks. So, they came upstairs to ask us to change our meeting time which we did. When we came back home I called Orange, again, told them the problem, again, and maybe this time they have corrected it. I took my phone when I went to the apteka and called Joan and the call went through so maybe it is working OK now, I hope.

Zawsze zdumiewa mnie wizyta w aptece, kiedy zrealizuj臋 na dwa miesi膮ce wszystkie 5 recept dla Joan. Ca艂kowity koszt to 93 zl ($ 25). W Stanach Zjednoczonych kosztowa艂oby to kilkaset dolar贸w. Zdzierstwo firm farmaceutycznych w Stanach Zjednoczonych jest dobrze udokumentowane, ale nikt, senatorowie, przedstawiciele rz膮d贸w nie po艂o偶y艂o temu kres. Opinia publiczna jest zak艂adnikiem legalnego przemys艂u farmaceutycznego.

Zgodnie z oczekiwaniami, zimna pogoda si臋 utrzymuje, ale dzisiaj by艂o s艂o艅ce dzisiaj i tylko -2 ° C tak, 偶e by艂o dobre.

Poranne pukanie do drzwi pochodzi艂o od recepcjonistki z do艂u z gabinetu lekarzy, gdzie Joan o 15:00 mia艂a wizyt臋. Chcieli je zmieni膰 na godzin臋13:00, pr贸bowali si臋 do nas dodzwoni膰, ale otrzymali wiadomo艣膰, 偶e Joan telefon jest wy艂膮czony, cho膰 tak nie by艂o. To jest w przeci膮gu ostatnich dw贸ch tygodni  powtarzaj膮cy si臋 problem z naszym dostawc膮,  Orange. Tak wi臋c, obs艂uga gabinetu przysz艂a do nas na g贸r臋, aby prosi膰 o zmian臋 godziny, co zrobili艣my. Kiedy wr贸cili艣my do domu,  po raz kolejny zadzwoni艂em do Orange i ponownie powiedzia艂em im o problemie; mo偶e tym razem naprawi膮 go. Kiedy poszed艂em do apteki, wzi膮艂em ze sob膮 m贸j telefon, zadzwoni艂em do Joan i nast膮pi艂o po艂膮czenie, wi臋c mam nadziej臋, 偶e mo偶e dzia艂a prawid艂owo.