Eyedrops Made of Pure Gold

I got something in my eye the other day and kept bothering me for a couple days and then this morning I woke up and couldn't keep my eyes open. I went up to the walk in clinic and they told me a I had a pretty good scratch on my cornea and gave me a prescription for eye drops. I went to the Fred Meyer to fill the prescription because they have $4 generic prescriptions and honestly, how much could a little bottle of eye drops cost. They told me they didn't carry the generic (of course) and that the name brand would cost $104. FOR A TINY BOTTLE OF EYE DROPS! Do what you want to force everyone to have health insurance, here lies the real health care problem. Just like my $304 tetanus shot, these medications don't cost anywhere near that much to produce. And the Pharmaceutical CEO's are taking home record salaries.

Ultimately we were told a different Fred Meyer carried the generic version, so we went there where it was going to cost $80! For generic? What happened to your $4 generic advertisement. The pharmacy ended up calling the doctor to see if they could give me a different but similar eye drop that did have a $4 generic version. The doctor said fine which begs me to ask, why the expensive one was even prescribed in the first place?

I don't know about this broken system we have. And it doesn't look like it's going to be fixed any time soon. Now that the health care bill just passed it will create the illusion that we are working on the problem when we are doing absolutely nothing to solve the REAL problem with health care costs in our country.

So I will solve the problem on my own. I wear glasses, but debris always seems to get in behind the lenses anyway. I mean, they're not safety glasses, they are just regular prescription glasses. Safety glasses have two problems: they aren't prescription and they still don't seal to your face so stuff gets behind them. I have a pair of clear plastic safety goggles, but they don't fit over my glasses very well and they fog up. So I order a pair of prescription safety glasses. They are like regular glasses but they have a foam seal around them so they actually close up around your eye so stuff can't get back there, and they are prescription so I'll still be able to see, plus I opted for the optional clip on sunglass lens for summer time.




So now I will stop getting shit in my eyes.