re: #346 Cato the Elder

If you understood anything about AHCCCS, they make it to where in AZ, the poor get better drug coverage, than people who pay for their own plans. Acne medication, and all the brand names are available, and if you can’t afford the 5 dollar copay, then you just say so, and you won’t be denied. Since AHCCCS applies to 4 times the poverty rate, and there are no restrictions for signing up, no my argument is no weak, because with that state run insurance, you get the ongoing care, and the scripts (not scrip) are paid for by me (and my fellow AZ workers.)

My mother works as a pharm tech at a Basha’s location in AZ, and she’ll see people with all the name brand groceries, show up at her window, claim they can’t pay the 5 dollar copay and still be given their script, which they nestle right between the Name Brand Cheerios, and the 24 pack of beer. So spare me the sob stories, because AZ is going broke with people gaming the AHCCCS system. It’s why doctors are now refusing to take more AHCCCS patients because they refuse to even pay the 10$ copay to be seen. Don’t tell me someone can’t afford 10$.