If you live in the United States and don't have health insurance, you qualify for discounted prescription drugs
Today in Useful Fucking Things That No One Tells You About: the Prescription Assistance Program (PAP) offers a discount drug card to uninsured Americans. The card is accepted at over 56,000 pharmacies nationwide, including CVS, RiteAid, Walgreens, and Safeway, and offers a discount of up to 75%.
I was fired a few years ago and was afraid I would have to give up my antidepressants, but my dad told me about the drug card. With it, I paid $30 instead of $60. Still kinda pricey, but I was able to afford them until I found a new job (and since they were for my social anxiety, I have no doubt they helped during interviews).
Share this. I’m sure there are a ton of unemployed and uninsured people who don’t know about this.
So important, definitely spread this.
That one time I wasn’t on psych meds because I couldn’t afford them.
LIFE SAVING INFORMATION, PEOPLE
This would have been useful the other day when i spent nearly $100 on prescriptions at wallgreens!
File this under important things to know.
wait omg if this is real i’m about to cry because one of my biggest expense keeping me from moving out is how much i pay for birth control every month (so i don’t end up with a $17,000 hospital bill again). omg. please let this be real.
Useful information for USians!
While we’re at it, most Australians know about this, but just in case - if you’re on a low income (even without any other Centrelink support, they just ask you to report your income over the last eight weeks) it’s pretty damn easy to get a Health Care Card. I put it off for ages, and, yeah, turns out it’s easy as pie, and the limit on what you can earn once you have it is higher than the eight-week means test for getting it. You don’t have to go through the prove-independance thing as for Youth Allowance. Lasts twelve weeks. Gets you prescriptions for $5.80 and some state govt concessions (eg: energy bill rebates in NSW).
