girl at large

You can't do my refill until tomorrow? Because of some "30 in 24 days" insurance rule? No exceptions, even if I'm traveling the entire next week, including the day I will run out of medication that very clearly states on the actual bottle not to miss a day? 

Ok, fine, I'll just pay for it then. Yes, I can get it if I just pay for it….how bad can that be? It is a generic. $140. You've got to be kidding me, for a generic?!? Ok, can you just give me a week's worth then? No? Because that's not what the prescription is for and then the insurance wouldn't cover the remainder when I get back….and so on and so in circles.

And I'm a lucky one, I have "health insurance"…or as I like to call it "Expensive, Systematic Roadblock to Actual Care Organization".

I wonder what my medication would cost if it were truly on an open market with fair competition, and not dictated by what amounts to a racketeering monopoly? Probably twenty bucks.