Help is Here Bus in Carrollton, GA

The Help is Here Bus was at Tanner's Heart and Vascular Center in Carrollton, GA Thursday.

According to the Times Georgian, a line of people sat on folding chairs in the parking lot waiting their turn to find out if they were eligible to receive help paying for their prescriptions.

The program has helped more than 251,000 Georgians find out if they qualify for free or discounted medicines.

Prescription drug bus to roll into midstate

The Partnership for Prescription Assistance, will visit the Macon Volunteer Clinic, in Macon, GA, on Wednesday, November 11.

The Macon Telegraph says, "The aim is to help lower-income people and the uninsured find out if they qualify for free medicine."

Valerie Biskey, the clinic's executive director and a Registered Nurse, says, "It doesn't do us any good to have a free clinic like we do here in Macon and then have the doctor say, 'OK, the only way I can treat your diabetes is to use a medicine that is, say, $100 a vial.' ... When you're on minimum wage, the first thing you say is, 'I've got to feed my family, or I need to eat or I have to put gas in my car. So guess what I'm gonna choose.' So they'll try to talk you out of the drug. And then you'll say, 'You don't have to talk us out of it because we're gonna get it for you free.'"