The Arthritis Foundation, Rocky Mountain Chapter serves over 505,000 people with arthritis in Colorado. Many of these people already deal with the high cost of routine medications.
Arthritis is a chronic condition requiring a life-long use of daily medication.
Utilizing the cost-savings benefit of a mail order pharmacy is a financial necessity, especially for people with arthritis who are elderly or disabled and on fixed or limited incomes. Many people with arthritis are able to remain working because they take advantage of mail order savings for prescription drugs and those medications enable them to prolong their chance of disability. To further stretch their health care dollar, many use their health plans mail order pharmacy program. HB 1320 would increase their costs. We believe the impact of this bill's passage would fall to a large extent on the shoulders of those consumers with chronic conditions who are larger users of pharmacy benefits.