Sure, go ahead.

And I'll tell you about the deal on my blood pressure pills also. I suddenly developed high blood pressure about 7 years ago - not a surprise I guess because my mom had that real bad. Anyway, I was lucky. The doc prescribed a once-daily generic pill that immediately reset my blood pressure to 120-something 70-something and I can still eat a lot of salt and drink beer.

Until I got on Medicare last year I paid for those pills out-of-pocket with no insurance coverage and that was a pretty good deal. They're generic - $15 for 30 pills each month. Then last year Medicare kicked in and I no longer have to pay anything for the pills. Woo-hoo.

Every month they send me a statement of what "benefits" have been paid by the Guv'mnt and by the supplemental health insurance company that the government pays premiums to. Guess what? The insurance company made me switch pharmacies and they're paying $88 every month for those same pills - almost six times as much! Wish they'd let me provide my own damn pills and pay me the $73 difference each month to put in my pocket - but no, that's going in someone else's pocket.

The whole system stinks to high heaven, there's so much waste, fraud, and corruption going on.