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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 2077481" data-attributes="member: 945">Oh man, don't get me started.  I just went round and round with an HMO last week.In February, I had my wife schedule me an appt with a doctor at a clinic to renew my prescription for Prevacid.  Prevacid is like a super-powerful form of Zantac. It's an acid inhibitor.  Without it, I would greatly suffer from heartburn all the time. The stay-awake-at-night variety. I take it every day.  And will likely have to take it everyday for the rest of my life.So, we go to the doctor, and I get a new prescription. She's actually cool, and gives me two, one traditional, and one specifically for mail order, which is cheaper in the long run.So, since I'm now running low, and have no more refills left, I asked my wife to go fill it. She calls me on the phone.  "There's a problem", she says.  Apparently, my HMO in its INFINITE wisdom, decided that I should only get 68 pills per year.  Yes, sixty-eight pills.  WTF?So, I had to go through some crap, but it finally got sorted out, and I ended up getting a couple of samples to tied me over.  Yesterday, I picked up my prescription, and the pharmacist felt my pain. "If it's any consolation, I've spent all day dealing with problems just like this."  And he was in the same boat that I was (which was reassuring) with regards to the number 68.  "Why 68 pills?  I have no idea."  Good lord.  I could almost see limiting something like codeine, or vicodin to a certain number of pills per year. Those are class-1 drugs, addictive, and powerful.  Prevacid controls my heartburn, and is non-addictive, and anyone who is on this class of drugs take them EVERY-FREAKING-DAY.  I should sue them just on principle alone.</blockquote>

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