I was really, really, really trying not to write about this. However, my anger towards the powers at be is too large.

There is going to be a revolution in this country. It is coming.

The water is boiling, and people are taking to the streets.

I also want you to pay very close attention to what isn’t being talked about. Healthcare organizations are laying off and cutting people’s benefits. The cost of healthcare and what people can afford is crushing people.

I have been watching this and feeling it since I have been alive. However, the largest population – the Boomers – are feeling the squeeze and not just a squeeze, suffocation.

It is this margin of people who are usually around 55 and older and can’t quite make it to retirement due to health reasons, who are then forced to go on their partner’s insurance or pay for Cobra.

What is really getting people is the maximum out-of-pocket costs and their deductibles. Don’t even talk to me about copays and premiums, that’s just more words. All these words equate to money. Just call it money.

A friend of mine and her union members almost striked this last week. Another friend had many lay-offs at her job just these last couple of months. I hear pockets of five people there, ten people over there – not big enough to make the news being laid-off. All in healthcare.

If I could stop taking my meds like in a hunger strike, I would. I can’t do that.

I am going to try not to go into this insane loop –

This last month, I have made at least a dozen phone calls about a particular medication I am trying to get. This is not a new medication – just a med I am on. My insurance didn’t even change.

I got a call on January 7 that I can no longer fill my med at IV Solutions and was told to go contact this other place. I called them, they said I can’t fill it here, call this number. I call that number they sent me back to the first. I called them, they said no – and about to send me along and I said, “Stop.”

Then, I said, “Is this the pharmacy that has two of me in the system?”

Mind you – I have five or six pharmacies for twelve medications.  I can’t remember everything. I have notes and etc. but it’s ridiculous. Pharmacies also have three names these days like all the other corporations of the world. I can’t keep track of all these names.

“There are three of you now.”

So – when one person calls and then looks up my info, however, it is pulled up – they are looking at the wrong me. That is why I am getting bounced around because they are running the wrong me or old information.

Two of me are “inactive” – but again, how does that show up or how tiny is the word “inactive.”

The one place wrote a special email to her supervisor to rectify the duplicate me’s.

I hear from my pharmacy benefit manager and she is going to speak to whomever, and I told her – “FYI if you call them, there are three of me in there, and I am not sure if it has been fixed yet.”

I get another call the next day – oh and let me tell you, Sheila gets voicemails because the people are looking up the wrong account of me and telling me to contact my pharmacy benefit manager because of blah, blah, blah.

Anyway, from God knows who calls and tells me after four weeks that have passed – that they are going to do a one-time override through Walgreens Alliance specialty pharmacy and then wait for it . . . wait for it . . . I can get it filled at IV Solutions. The place where I have been getting it filled for three years.

I was supposed to receive the medication yesterday – I have not. This started on January 7th – do you see the date. I have used one week of my two-week orphan medication so far. I call it orphan medication because it is leftover medication from when I was admitted to the hospital. It is not the full 28-day amount but left over from its original group or amount.

Simultaneously, I have been trying to get Nexium filled. Nexium has a stake in the market which I cannot even understand. I actually get the generic form which you would think would be easier to fill, not always.

First, my doc put in Nexium brand name in – wrong. I was quoted $267.00 for my portion for that. I said, is that the generic? First, they said yes, then they said no.

I had my doc put in a new script for the generic. The pharmacy couldn’t find it and after some “digging” they did receive it but thought it was a duplicate for Nexium. “You just told me to get a new script as it cannot be substituted; I did, and you filed it away.” Supposedly that is coming in the mail.

Acid pills are very important or I should say, your stomach ph. is very important. If you don’t have the correct ph. or ideal ph. in your stomach, you won’t digest your food appropriately. Your enzymes will not work right. My enzymes literally melt. Let alone, it can break down the linings of your esophagus and stomach which can lead to Barrett’s and can be a precursor to esophageal cancer or other cancers.  It is super duper important to be mindful for your ph.

So this is what I know – healthcare costs are a scam. My copay for the med I need is a $125 – not surprised. I take it 6 times a year. A scam.

The cost of a new machine when this one dies for the med is not covered by insurance. It just isn’t covered – which is always amazing to me. “It just isn’t covered.” Oh okay. I will submit to the healthcare Gods. The cost of the machine is $900, and that is at a discount. It used to be $1,800. A scam.

There is going to be a revolution. The Boomers are going to cost this system billions upon billions of dollars – the system can’t take it. And then one industry affects another, and another, and another – that is when the people uprise.

The young people can’t afford to walk out there door. They aren’t going to take it. They can’t pay for the boomers, and we can’t pay for them.

A scam.

Another scam – how about we change the way in which business is done. Have patients primary form of communication be email versus calling. I have to say a silent prayer every time I call these people, for my patience.

The last ten voicemails are from pharmacies: CVS pharmacy, Caremark specialty, IV Solutions, Accredo, Optum Rx, Walgreens Allianz, Walgreens, and the Pharmacy Benefit Manager.

There is going to be a revolution.

Thank you for listening. This has been a bit therapeutic.