The Widdershins  Archive for March 7th, 2012  Just a little
background information:  I have been without health insurance
for quite a long time; going back to after Hurricane Katrina. 
Through a number of mix-ups, screw-ups and literally the mail
not going through, I found myself without health insurance. 
This is not a good thing when you take *maintenance* medications
for things like hypertension, elevated cholesterol and some
other issues.  So naturally, this was a scary prospect I was
facing.  I was fortunate that I found one pharmacy that has a
prescription savings plan which gives you a discount on certain
medications.  You join the “club” for an annual fee and then you
are eligible for the discounted price.  My hypertension
medication, cholesterol med and several others were on their
list.  Also, there were antibiotics, antifungals and a goodly
number of other medications.  This helped quite  bit, however,
when the doctor wrote a prescription that wasn’t on the list of
medications, it could get expensi