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Wow. Talking with a friend, he's having some health issues. Doc recently wanted him to try taking Humira. I've heard the commercial for it 1000 times. The Doc said insurance should cover it, but wanted him to sign a generic form anyway. He actually reads things. The form said that in case insurance didn't pay, he was accepting responsibility for the $40k or $45k cost for the first month of the drug. And he was going to get that amount every month. Yes, $500k a year for one prescription. Yikes. Needless to say, he refused to sign.

Meanwhile, you can get the same drug for $1300 in Australia:
https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/buy/60724/Humira-40mg-0-8mL-Injection-2

Or you can get a 'discount' price in NY for $5400:
https://www.pharmacychecker.com/humira/

So, it's cheaper to pay for a week's vacation including flying to Australia, and get the drug there, than what it costs here. And do that every month. Insane...
 
They were going to put my daughter on it, and the drug company was going to pay for most of what the Insurance company would not. Getting it approved by the insurance company practically took an act of Congress as you can imagine. I can't remember what our share would be but it wasn't much. But she ended up on Remicade instead because she was 17 and Humira was only approved for adult use. We ended up paying a helluva lot more for Remicade ($6000 deductible per year plus co-pays) than we would have for Humira.
 
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I'm no where near that, but I was just approved for a drug that is $37k per year. The pharmaceutical cos have co pay cards and I will be paying $0. They do this to use me like a guinea pig to see my side effects. Humira has co pay cards too. Not based on income at all.
 
My wife is on entivio. Its a 1000.00 co pay per infusion. If it cured her I wouldn’t complain. It does help some but is needed for life and it’s benefits barely seem worth the potential risks. I would love to see our medical system get taken over by the government. Could it be more of a rip-off than it is now?
 
My wife is on entivio. Its a 1000.00 co pay per infusion. If it cured her I wouldn’t complain. It does help some but is needed for life and it’s benefits barely seem worth the potential risks. I would love to see our medical system get taken over by the government. Could it be more of a rip-off than it is now?

You have to be joking? About wanting government health care, not your wife's illness. Has she tried a probiotic diet, including pre probiotics? Aloevera juice? Anything to not need an expensive pharmaceutical with side effects.
 
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You have to be joking? About wanting government health care, not your wife's illness. Has she tried a probiotic diet, including pre probiotics? Aloevera juice? Anything to not need an expensive pharmaceutical with side effects.
She has chrones disease, and has tried many different treatments over the years, including remicade, steroids, chemo like drugs, etc. she is well beyond diet making much difference.
As far as our health care needing a change, it’s absurd we pay way more for less care than any other country in the world. The hospitals can charge anything thing they want right now. The really scary part is now they are suing people for the bills more frequently every day. I don’t see how you can harm an allready broke system.
 
The biologics and chemotherapies are all crazy expensive like that. Then insurance gets stuck covering the costs - it's no wonder insurance is so expensive and deductibles have gotten so high.

Mine is a biologic and rather new for my symptoms. That's why the copay.... so they can further research. Research costs billions and I'm okay with it being done by private industry not the government.
 
Free market is the answer not the government.

When the companies have to compete for our business, the prices fall.
That approach hasn’t worked so far. Hospitals have become big corporate business and right now they can rip of people with no consequence.
 
That approach hasn’t worked so far. Hospitals have become big corporate business and right now they can rip of people with no consequence.

Hogwash. It hasn't been tried in about a century. Brent, you really need to move to Cuba or Venezuela to get your proper gov't provided health care.

Ronald Reagan said it best.
 
My wife is on entivio. Its a 1000.00 co pay per infusion. If it cured her I wouldn’t complain. It does help some but is needed for life and it’s benefits barely seem worth the potential risks. I would love to see our medical system get taken over by the government. Could it be more of a rip-off than it is now?
Brent, you are delusional. If you want to know what that is going to look like when the government takes over, look up how much Medicare will pay for Entyvio right now.

https://www.goodrx.com/entyvio/medicare-coverage

They will tell you that Entyvio is not medically necessary, and she only needs to take something like Pentasa instead.
 
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Damn, after reading some of these stories, I don't feel so bad. I do pay approx. $2000 for a 90 supply of Victoza but after hearing some of these others stories, maybe that is not so bad. I DO NOT WANT GOVERNMENT INVOLVED IN MY HEALTHCARE. This is a large part of the problem today. Too many regulations resulting in MUCH higher prices and little or no competition. If the government would just get out of the way, the system would fix itself.
 
I guess this is why I don't like going to the doctor (drug pushers). They always find something wrong, and here's some pills to help. If those pills don't work, here's some more. Doctors make a good living pushing pills.
If you can limit your interaction with Doctors, lawyers and Bankers you will live longer and keep more of the money you make in life!
 
If you can limit ---read reduce--- government involvement in your life, you will save a fortune and actually be able to live free.
I agree with this statement for the most part. I do think when an entire industry is ripping off the population with no consequences that there are instances when the government should step in and make some rules.
 
Proof of the entire industry rip -off? Proof were the government involvement has lowered medical costs? Proof were we are benefiting from government involvement? Any examples were government has lowered cost and improved service? How well has the government involvement worked for the VA hospitals? The number one enemy of a free person and economic development is the government.
 
I agree with this statement for the most part. I do think when an entire industry is ripping off the population with no consequences that there are instances when the government should step in and make some rules.

I'll give a great example of how this should work. FCC vs the EU. The EU requires that all electronics be tolerant of reasonable static electricity hits, that it not affect performance. Call that the nanny state. The FCC takes a different view: they have no such requirement. Their view is that if a product is so weak that a modest static electricity hit causes it to fail, then the market (the people ) will stop buying it and the company will fail. Companies can choose to test, or not test. Choose to improve their product, or face the wrath of the consumer.

Yes, big Pharma are screwing over the people. But be patient, their retribution will come. And the market will punish them far faster & with greater pain than any gov't policy.
 

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