My Jimmy Fallon “Thank You” Letter

In the words of Jimmy Fallon, “Thank you”…Aetna Health Insurance for changing your pre-qualification policy for the medication that I have been taking for over twenty years. I have gone
through the normal process of having my physician prescribe the medication and when it is running low, I call my pharmacy to have it refilled, then I get in my car and go pick it up.  Not now.  I called it in and was told by my pharmacy that I now need pre-certification to have this medication filled and that I would need to contact my insurance company as well as my doctor.
OH, really? This is for Advair, for severe Asthma.  I need it to breathe to LIVE. 

Advair has successfully managed my Asthma for over twenty years and now I need “pre-certification” for a generic medication instead without any notice of the change?   What would qualify as pre-certification to now have my asthma medication filled and somewhat covered by this wonderful insurance company? Death?
Waiting four days without Advair to get this resolved, I came pretty close. If it was for Thyroid medication or something else, ok.  So I would be a little inconvenienced, but my Asthma medication?  Maybe they will cut me off at 65? God forbid I develop any other maladies.

Not a good sign of what is to come…