Co-Pay Increases at a Pharmacy Near You
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2008-04-28 06:41.
I have only recently been introduced to drugs such as Copaxone and their seriously high costs ($1900/month) through my fiancee's MS. Luckily enough she only has a co-pay of $40 (while working hourly for $10), however I came across a scary article on the New York Times website today that gives a glimpse into the direction of medication costs in the US. Does society not have an obligation to help those in such great need? Those that are rallying against the higher overall premium because it only benefits a few will get new perspective if they are ever diagnosed with a disease as horrible as MS or Cancer.
Hopefully this sort of thing will be blocked.
Tier 4 drug pricing is based
Tier 4 drug pricing is based on the system used by Medicare Part D drug plans. I applaud these legislators in NY state for trying to prevent private health insurers from implementing these outrageously high co-pays for some medications (including the MS disease-modifying drugs). I only hope that someone will take up this cause at the national level for those of us who can no longer work and must rely on Medicare for health insurance.
The National MS Society does a good job of fund-raising for MS research, but a disease-modifying drug (or even a cure someday) doesn't help if we can't afford the co-pay!
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