Glad I have good Health Care

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Today I finally start a new treatment for my asthma. Xolair. This is a 10-12k per year treatment and thankfully I wil have to only pay $20 per month. There are plenty of people that have no health care and need this treatment! I am 23 and spend $100+ on the copay for my drugs per month. If my DH did not work for the Fed then we would be SOL.

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1. We should all be so lucky...

but really, it shouldn't be left to luck.

[Nimrod2005]

2. Good luck....

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3. i've got you beat

i get migraines 12-18 migraines a month. sometimes i get migraines every day for an entire season.

triptan meds (imitrex, zomig, etc.) are really expensive, upwards of $80 per dose, and i often need 2 doses per migraine.

total annual cost would probably be $15,000-20,000 if i had to pay retail. never mind the meds and vitamins and herbs i also take every day to keep the migraines as "manageable" as they are now.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

4. another migraineur here! Those triptans are PRICEY!

(plus other meds- psych meds, antinausea meds-zofran- costs my insurance over 1k per 20 pills... )

I'm a frova gal myself. Three cheers for frova. :-)

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5. of course, the insurance companies don't actually pay retail prices

the actual retail prices of meds and medical procedures are jokes. all the insurance companies have negotiated rates, so the retail prices are ridiculously high because they want to make sure they're above the contracted price. the worst mistake they can make is the price below the contracted rate -- that's just throwing money away!

and retail prices are almost irrelevant for anyone with insurance, and most people without insurance are going to just do without the meds.