to pay perscriptions out of pocket (25% discount card).
But with a bit of leg work. You can talk with doctors, find the generics that may do the trick instead... So in the case of my surgery I took Norco (Lortab generic) instead of Percaset.
They cost like .75 cents each (high dosage). To get me through 4-6 days of intense pain, the total cost was something like $25.