The latest thing is to pay people on welfare to take their medicine. I don't mean paying for their medicine, but actually paying them everytime they take a dose.
"It's better to spend money on medication adherence for patients, rather than having them boomerang in and out of the hospital," said Valerie Fleishman, executive director of the New England Healthcare Institute. Chiquita Parker participates in the program in Philadelphia. She isn't married, but she has a child. She has lupus. She says she would forget to take her medicine or sometimes take two a day. She's "earned" $300 in the last six months for taking her medicine. She says she takes it regularly now. And you know what that proves? It proves she could take it properly before, she just didn't want to. So now we pay her to do it.
Essie May has to take several prescriptions, herself -- where do I sign up???
"Take your medicine -- and get paid." The Dallas Morning News; June 14, 2010; p. 5A.
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