The Mysteries of the U.S. Health Care System

 are more inscrutable than the

 

FOR  INSTANCE 

Dr. Foster my Cataract Surgeon didn't go to Gloucester, but he sent my prescription for a specialist eye drop (Pred-Moxi-Bronf)  to a Parrish, FL  Pharmacy ( a forty two miles round trip)

 

There are many of these "Discount" Pharmacies in the area.  I have no idea how they fit into the overall system.

What I do know is that  Pred-Moxi-Bronf  is evidently not covered by my Medicare, nor by my Church Pension Fund supplemental health insurance.  

My Co Pay for P-M-B brought a wee bit of sticker shock.

I am used to Co Pays of $10 or $15 for traditional meds. 'Tis O.K.   I have an emergency fund for these exigencies 

BUT 

1.  I think of  person of my age who lives in rural Florida. Her/his only income is Social Security.  He/she has no supplemental health insurance. Forty miles away from a hospital, a clinic, or an Eye Surgeon, she/he has cataracts in one or both eyes.  He/she has "a snowball's chance in a Florida summer" of getting surgery.

2. The AMERICAN Health Care non-system is like buying a 1,000 piece jigsaw with 250 or more crucial pieces missing.