Messed up Health Care System

So, today I really discovered how messed up healthcare truly is in the US. I went to walgreens today to pick up my birth control (which is free through a government healthy women plan). Turns out you can only get one month at a time, bummer.

So, while I was there I asked them about the prescription plan there that I signed up for (which allows me to get my prescriptions for $4 instead of $50 per month). You're supposed to get a card in the mail that I still haven't gotten, so I wanted to ask them about it. As they were looking it up, they informed me that I can't have government insurance plus their prescirption plan at the same time. Even though my healthy women plan only covers exams and contraception. So now my monthly prescriptions are back to $50.

I am disgusted. Luckily for me I'm only on these two meds, but what about the folks with medical conditions or older people on medicare that are on tons of medications? Medicare DOES NOT cover everything. What do they expect people to do? No wonder people are having to chose between food and medications...

Needless to say, I switched all my prescriptions to a different pharmacy that's more accommodating.

Just thought I'd share this with you guys, see what you think.

Paid $110 for my doc visit yesterday and $98 on prescriptions straight after. And I'm on a monthly plan to pay off a medical bill I already have with that office.

Yeah, it sucks. =/

When I was on private insurance, I paid about $300 per month in premiums, plus about $100 per visit for my exams, plus $90 for my prescription.

Now I am uninsured (well, insured only for catastrophic needs).  I go to the clinic where I pay $90 every three months for my exam and prescription. 

Needless to say, the idea of forcing folks to buy private insurance really scares me.

I tried to get private insurance and can't...We lost our insurance when my mom lost her job, and I can't get insured because I'm overweight and have a "preexisting condition" (anxiety, which I am medicated for and have no issues with)

The whole thing just makes me sick

I had to get pregnant and cut my work hours drastically for a month to qualify for health insurance through the state, and even then I only qualified by eighty bucks. 

I figure since I make enough extra, I have no problems paying the extra for my medical care under normal circumstances.  Paying for prenatal care wouldn't be a big issue, either.  It's paying for prenatal care and the things necessary to have a baby that I can't tackle both at once, and I'm sure the delivery would have to be paid off in segments.