Forms, Mr. Rico!
Apr. 26th, 2026 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI have filled out the forms for Gretchen and me to apply for Medicare. Now I just need to get someone to accept them. This is important, because even if I were to sign up for COBRA for both of us, it is subordinated to Medicare, which we do not have, which seems to indicate that we wouldn't have health insurance anyway. This may or may not be legal, but that probably doesn't matter.
In different news, I have determined that our combined prescription cost at Sam's Club -- excluding our Ozempic and Mounjaro! -- should be less than $100 per month. Given the sheer number of prescriptions that we take, that's pretty good. This does require us to get the prescriptions 30 days at a time, but it's not like I don't get to Sam's Club frequently -- and, of course, the program is set up that way to get you to Sam's Club frequently. :)
It looks like there is some sort of reduced rate available for the GLP-1 drugs, but the landscape is moving so quickly there that sorting out which information is correct is a challenge. And that is one of the reasons that I have an advisor to sort this out...
In different news, I have determined that our combined prescription cost at Sam's Club -- excluding our Ozempic and Mounjaro! -- should be less than $100 per month. Given the sheer number of prescriptions that we take, that's pretty good. This does require us to get the prescriptions 30 days at a time, but it's not like I don't get to Sam's Club frequently -- and, of course, the program is set up that way to get you to Sam's Club frequently. :)
It looks like there is some sort of reduced rate available for the GLP-1 drugs, but the landscape is moving so quickly there that sorting out which information is correct is a challenge. And that is one of the reasons that I have an advisor to sort this out...