I’m so often blogging about the lack of caring on behalf of the medical industry or it’s violating of our wallets, lives and fiscal opportunities, I thought I’d share another side- a positive side. Medical bills do cause 61% of all bankruptcies, and if you follow me on here, you may know of or be yourself a person whose income is hit hard by medical costs.
In writing an article for another site, I came across a means to obtain free medication. The limits are quite significant, meaning- you can actually make a decent living and still qualify for free medication as opposed to being virtually starving by the federal government’s qualification standards. Pfizer drugs has a series of programs that take income up to twice poverty limits and give citizens free medication assistance. This means a family of four can earn up to (gasp) $44,100 and still qualify!
Here’s how:
- You must have been prescribed a Pfizer medication
- You must be reside in the US, Puerto Rico or US Virgin Islands
- Your income is at or below 2X federal poverty limits (see site for criteria)
- You have no health insurance or benefits for prescriptions
- If you do have health insurance, but have a financial hardship, you must demonstrate financial hardship.
Unlike most federal garbage that involves a War and Peace volume of documents, signed in blood contracts and the name and address of your third grade teacher, Pfizer needs minimal documentation to submit application. Pay check stubs, Tax Returns, Wage statements or similar will do- (and you need submit only one of these).
Then you take the single page document to your physician to fill out and send all three documents off to Pfizer. Seriously. It’s that easy.
What can you get? Well, any of the hundreds of Pfizer drugs, including pricey Chantex – the “quit smoking” drug, thyroid meds, heart meds, etc. If your doc is prescribing something not manufactured by Pfizer, and you believe you’d qualify or have a fiscal hardship, ask your physician for a comparable Pfizer drug before applying. There’s also a customer service number for this purpose. If you qualify, you’ll get up to 90 days of prescriptions MAILED to you at a time…which is super wonderful for the elderly or truly ill who can’t pop over to pharmacies as easily.
To begin the process, go to the link below, fill out the simple webform on their site which matches you to anyone of their five programs, (they also have one for those unemployed since January 2009) and print out whatever applications you’re matched to. Complete and send in according to the instructions.
Here’s the link for Pfizers program-
http://www.pfizerhelpfulanswers.com/pages/Find/find.aspx
Please let me know if you try this, what your success rate is! To your health and your savings!