Above: Fair Pharmacare [BC Pharmacare's income-based assistance program] rocks! The less, ahem, *impressive* your income, the less you pay for prescriptions. Hooray for relative poverty! This wasn't even the only prescription I had filled today; the receipts for three months of meds totaled $440.21, five bucks of which I was responsible for and which the pharmacy waived. If I had to pay this all myself right now, it would fucking FLATTEN me.
See that "PHN" on the upper right? That's your ID, your Personal Health Number, on your government-issued CareCard, which you show at any doctor, pharmacy or hospital. Thank you, Tommy Douglas.
I hope the US gets the healthcare Obama's been trying for. No one should have to choose between buying medicine or food. Or be scared of a word like "socialism".
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