Well I am excited to renew my efforts in writing on the Who's Positive blog. Why you may ask? well, because its also being simulcasted on facebook, my own Public Figure page on facebook. Check it out and add yourself to be a fan if you want. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tom-Donohue/12256382291
Actually, its much more than that. I want to really begin discussions on stuff surrounding HIV/AIDS
Today's topic I wanted to discuss is my medications. I wonder how much you think is my medications are... a month? Well without my insurance it is $1,390.36 thats $14,721.46 a year!
Now there is a program called ADAP AIDS Drug Assistance Program (http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/player_kff.cfm?id=28#) is a great video on the program
How is it that we have waiting lists? Really? Aren't we like the richest country in the world and we have people on waiting lists waiting for VERY EXPENSIVE medications to help those dying from HIV/AIDS.
I am lucky I am healthy, I have health insurance which covers my medications - it's one of the major reasons I decided to become a flight attendant - so that I could free up funding for others who cant work or don't have the money for their medications. I use the mail service where they mail me 60 days worth of medication for $60 bucks. In comparisons to the nearly $1400 and at times it was $1700 when I lived back in PA.
This is why we must continue to bring this to the forefront - we must contact our elected officials and remind them that its so important for them to fund ADAP program and ask them why its not compeletely funded. I bet if we reduce some of pork barrel funding and reduce our troops fighting in a country thats not even ours we could really help begin taking care of our own people here... in our own country of the United States.
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