Something Strange at the Pharmacy…

After the trip back into Tacoma to drive JoAnn and the kiddos home from JoAnn’s doctor’s appointment, I took her prescriptions to the Safeway pharmacy near the new house. As they were getting checked in, I was asked about insurance, and answered the pharmacist assistant that we’d be paying cash for them. He looked at me like it was a strange thing, asking why we’d do that on this, and I just said it was because we didn’t have insurance. Wasn’t made a big deal or anything.

Went back a few hours later to pick up. As it turns out, one of the prescriptions have an over-the-counter equivalent that was FAR cheaper, so they’d gotten permission to substitute.

That rocks. And is the way it should be.

After the trip back into Tacoma to drive JoAnn and the kiddos home from JoAnn’s doctor’s appointment, I took her prescriptions to the Safeway pharmacy near the new house. As they were getting checked in, I was asked about insurance, and answered the pharmacist assistant that we’d be paying cash for them. He looked at…