This occurred in early summer of this year. Her doctor was able to arrange giving her the medicine for free. In googling her story, it seems that she has since died.The 64-year-old Oregon woman, whose lung cancer had been in remission, learned the disease had returned and would likely kill her. Her last hope was a $4,000-a-month drug that her doctor prescribed for her, but the insurance company refused to pay.
What the Oregon Health Plan did agree to cover, however, were drugs for a physician-assisted death. Those drugs would cost about $50.
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i am at a loss for words.....
You have to admit it's efficient!
Profit based on our deaths, how special. That is why we need to get up to speed with the rest of the industrialized countries and give health CARE, not health insurance to our citizens. You would think that a country would have a vested interest in the health of it's citizens.
My employer covered health insurance, (with my co-pay of premiums and doctor's appointments and prescriptions) recently went up by 12%. The first time I renewed a prescription after that the pharmacy told me that even though I had been on this scrip for years, things had changed and the insurance would only pay for 30 pills in 30 days. Now I was on 300 mg. of this prescription and the pharmaceutical company does not make a 300 mg. version so I was prescribed 2 - 150 mg pills per day. No matter. The insurance company decided to defy my doctor's orders and only allow me 30 pills. I could either continue on 2 pills per day and run out after 2 weeks and have to wait another 2 weeks to refill or I could cut down to 1 pill per day. Since the pills act on my brain chemistry and central nervous system either choice was dangerous to me. My co-pay was the same if I was getting 30 or 60 pills.
I had my doctor intervene and override the decision but why should they have the final say over your personal doctor?
The US has dropped to 44th in life expectancy despite spending more per capita on health care. We are also behind Latvia in infant mortality. Are you proud now?
Good god, rhode island rules! I'm grateful you challenged the ruling.
I'm sorry to see you know first hand the horrors of insurance driven health care. What idiot thought up this system anyway?... musta been a Republican thinking how to milk the system for more money...
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