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I cannot afford my drugs.

I had a productive office visit with a Physician's Assistant at my HMO. We discussed my acid reflux and my headaches. She wrote me a new prescription for Protonix at a higher dose than I'd been taking, and one for a headache med. Because of recent changes to my coverage (in October, when Kaiser raised my monthly premium, they simultaneously rewrote the prescription benefit), my out of pocket cost for a three month supply of Protonix is now five fucking hundred percent of what it was a few months ago.

I don't have $75 in my bank account. I've got, I think, one tablet of the stuff left. I've got other prescriptions I'm running out of. I'm going to be chewing a Hell of a lot of Tums this week.

I'm going to crawl into bed and cry now. And then I'm going to go back to the page of competing health plans I bookmarked and try to figure out whether I can afford any of them.