I got some great news yesterday. I went to refill my "staying alive" medicine and was told a 30 day supply will cost me $740 going forward. Seems the Gilead copay assistance card can no longer be used because I "have used up my allotment for a lifetime". They released this drug in 2015 and told me at the time that the copay assistance card was for a lifetime.
If I had known otherwise I would have never switched to this "less toxic" medicine.
It's odd, this medicine costs $20 in Africa, $32 in Australia, and $4000 here in America. I have an appointment to see a specialist on the 13th but will have to go without medicine till then. I'll definitely have to switch to an older medicine I've used in the past that has some side effects I don't really care for... Oh well. There is nothing I can do about it.
Luckily the old medicine's patent ran out just this year, so generic is finally available. Gilead tried to unsuccessfully extend this patent as it expired but that representative known as AOC helped lobby to get it shot down.
Life goes on... I can do without the slap in the face though.
Glad it worked out for you. Got to love the system.
Around the time I quit smoking my company insurance stopped covering COPD meds. The two I was taking would have cost most of my take home pay. Looked into getting them from Canada, it would have been a fraction of the cost but the process seemed a little dodgy. Not to mention criminal. I almost bailed out and moved back to England but in the end I just stopped taking them. Guess I quit smoking before my lungs were too messed up.
