Why People Live in Canada

i have a prescription that i have filled each month. when i went into the pharmacy to reorder it, as i had silly-ly thrown away the label the month prior, the pharmacist asked if i wanted to get more than one at a time. of course, i said absolutely! who can be bothered with walking 2 blocks to the drugstore once a month? time value of money, after all.

i went to pick up the prescriptions today and paid $2 for 3 months' supply of a brand name drug. you do the math. the annual cost is $8. i was paying $15 a month in the states, or $180 a year. oh, when you think about it, i'm def paying the same amount for the drug, if not more, through the exorbitantly high taxes i pay. as a matter of fact, gas is currently $5.24 a gallon, which i may have mentioned a time or two. i'm still in electroshock therapy from it though and my therapist has told me that talking and journaling about the excess is the only way to remedy it. but i digress. still, i'm a very happy girl when i pick up a 3 month supply of something for $2. i skipped away like a giddy schoolgirl on the last day of class - "you're the one that i want...ooh, ooh, ooh, honey."

$8 for a one year supply of drugs. this is why people live in canada.