Painful Choices, Seniors and Prescription Drugs

Leigh Daughtridge

Copley Chicago Newspapers / Fox Valley Publications

Bargain Hunt, Jean Justic reads cost comparisons to her husband Ed as they spend the day driving to area pharmacies to price their monthly prescriptions. January 1, the couple will lose their HMO benefits forcing them to find a different way to pay for their prescription drugs. 'Middle income people never fall into the programs where you can get the help,' she says. 'Yet, you can never afford the luxury of paying full price.'

Leigh Daughtridge, "Painful Choices, Seniors and Prescription Drugs," in POYi Archive, Item #31649, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/31649 (accessed November 23, 2024).