Focus on Preventative Care

This can include a variety of things. If you follow even a few of these items on your list, we can guarantee you that the quality of your life will improve! Start with these easy-to-implement steps:

1. Eat Healthy. Research has shown that the metabolism and other bodily functions can slow down with age. This is a normal part of the aging process, but there are steps that you can take to make your later years much more pleasant.
2. Get Enough Sleep. Insomnia is a common problem among elderly individuals. Make sure you get enough sleep each night by turning the TV off at least two hours before bed, eating a healthy diet and making sure your bedroom is dark and quiet.
3. Get your mental health in check. If you are suffering from a life altering condition such as depression or anxiety, taking the proper medication and seeing a therapist or psychiatrist is highly recommended. Mental health is an often overlooked part of overall health. Don’t be afraid to reach out to someone if you need to talk.
4. Exercise: Exercise can be a double-whammy; not only does it help with mental health issues such as depression, exercising can help keep your weight and your blood pressure under control. This is actually something that doctors will regularly recommend to Type 2 diabetics; this can help manage the condition with proper medication.
5. Take your meds. If you have a serious and chronic condition, taking your medication is a must. If you are under-insured or uninsured, we understand the frustration that you must be feeling. Our company was founded under the premise that everyone should have fair and equal access to life-saving drugs.

Prescription Assistance for Uninsured and Under-Insured Seniors

We were founded to help patients pay for their prescriptions and to solve the ever-growing problem of uninsured prescription costs in America. We help you qualify for prescription assistance for a host of popular drugs such as Cymbalta, Lantus, Humulin, Symbicort, Viagra, and more! Whether you have high blood pressure or suffer from a chronic condition such as asthma or diabetes, we are here to help! Prescription drugs can be a significant cost for senior citizens; in fact, it can become such a problem that many people will forego filling a prescription because they do not have enough money. Our goal is to help get and keep you healthy. If you’d like to learn more about our program and see if you qualify, give us a call today. Remember: an apple a day keeps the doctor away!

“We see patients who can’t take the full dose. They cut their pills in half. They skip doses. People with diabetes who don’t take the required amount of insulin to manage their Type 1 diabetes let their blood sugars spike dangerously before they take an injection, because they can’t afford it. People with rheumatoid arthritis who have terrible pain because they can’t take the full dose required to manage that disease. People are angry, and they’re hurting, and they don’t understand how this could be happening to them in the United States of America.”

One reason, he says, is the fact that drug companies that develop new drugs are given the exclusive right to sell them for a period of years.

“The idea is you made an investment. You deserve a return on that investment. For a small molecule drug, a period of exclusivity is five years. For an orphan drug for a small population, the period of exclusivity is seven years. For biologics it’s 12 years. During that period of exclusivity, you are able to exercise monopoly pricing power. The short outcome of that is that drug companies are able pretty much to charge whatever they want, and we have no way to stop them.”

Former Congressman Henry Waxman, who cosponsored the 1984 Hatch–Waxman Act that reformed the system for drug approval and patenting, offers a related explanation. He says companies defend high prices by claiming they need money for research and development.

“PHRMA, the trade association for the pharmaceutical industry, is quite powerful. They’ve increased their lobbying budget. They’ve increased their advertising budget. They have a sympathetic case to make when they suggest to people who are suffering from diseases for which there are no cures that there may not be cures if their incentives are taken away.”