Medical Care

I ran out of most of my prescriptions while we were traveling, so I made haste to the pharmacy to get renewals today (yesterday being a holiday).   My co-payment was 193.98 dollars.  My co payment for exactly the same drugs a month an a half ago was 142.00 (which was quite frightening at the time.  Looking at my receipt, all the drugs which had a 25.00 co payment last time had a 30.00 co payment today.  This, in addition to a more than 300.00 increase of the amount they took from my social security pension last month for Medicare.  I received my yearly accounting of what is taken from my university pension for insurance etc. and discovered that I am also paying some from that pension for Medicare accounting.  I still have one presciption to go for the month, one that has to be compounded and comes from a different pharmacy.  Last month the co-payment was 45.00.  I shudder to think what it will be this month (The insurance people make that decision.)  I am sure glad that government health care is making health care so much less expensive.