Free Prescription Drug Coverage

[Guest guest]

Dick,

You wrote, " One web site he turned me onto is www.pparx.org where you can find

many medications for free from the pharaceutical companies. "

I am delighted to hear that this has been helpful to you. There has been recent

legislative changes to provide prescription drug coverage and assistance for

person's who 'fall through the crack'. I have been in communication with Rx For

Indiana as they are wanting to educate the public about these unused resources.

For more, go to:http://rxforindiana.org/. They wanted to know if the PAI would

consider allowing them to have a display table at the symposium. And, of course,

they will.

I checked into this service some more. It is difficult for an individual to

qualify as 'poverty' income, but for persons with children, I do believe it may

be a good service to try and not let people, in fact, fall through the cracks'.

The poverty guidelines can be found at: http://www.rxassist.org/federal.cfm.

Though many persons make only ten dollars too much, and do not qualify, I do not

think it would benefit anyone to bash this income structure. It would not affect

change. The PAI along with the ADA and AHA are working through legislative

hearing to make legislative changes to these guidelines. The system is new and,

by your testimony, is really helping people. That is cool!

Karyn E. , RN

Executive Director, PAI

Pancreatitis Association International

[Guest guest]

Hi Karyn;

Yea, I'm on SSDI at $17,700 a year and this will be a BIG help. I

didn't see any restrictions as to what state you lived in, just

answer a handful of questions (age, are you pegant, annual income,

any other prescription coverage, and medical or whichever state you

are in) and they tell you online if you qualify.

Glad it helped.

Dick

> Dick,

>

> You wrote, " One web site he turned me onto is www.pparx.org where

you can find many medications for free from the pharaceutical

companies. "

>

> I am delighted to hear that this has been helpful to you. There has

been recent legislative changes to provide prescription drug coverage

and assistance for person's who 'fall through the crack'. I have been