As seniors living in Poland, we take part in the national health care system. For seniors, many medicines are totally free. That is a huge benefit of living here. In the U.S., the cost would be at least 10 times higher resulting in consuming almost all of our social security check each month.
When I went yesterday to get the prescriptions, it seemed the cost was higher than before. I just assumed it was inflation.
At home, I checked the bill and found what I thought was a discrepancy. It has to do with the medicine, Atrox. Joan and I both take it to control our cholesterol. Joan's was free, but for mine, there was a charge. I didn't think that was right.
Today, I took the receipt and went back to the Aptekaa to question the charge. The pharmacist told me they only make charges according to the way the doctor writes a prescription. In this case, the doctor wrote free for Joan, not for me, even though the quantity, milligram, and amount were the same. Now, naturally, I will have to make an appointment to talk to the doctor about this.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Moscow’s concession in the US peace deal is simply that it does not keep invading Ukraine and take territories it does not even control.
On Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance said an “explicit proposal” was issued to Kyiv and Moscow without naming the terms, adding that Washington would withdraw from the deal if no progress were made.
While Vance said both parties would have to “give up some of the territory they currently own,” Trump, when asked about the concessions proposed to Moscow on Thursday, answered “stopping the war” while suggesting that not “taking the whole country” is a “pretty big concession,” according to CNN.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would never recognize Crimea as Russian because it is enshrined in Ukraine’s constitution.
