Cost of meds

[Guest guest]

I read the article. It makes your hair stand up. The pharmaceutical

industry have been the most lucrative in the U.S. but that's not good enough

for them. They are doubling, tripling the prices of many cancer

medications; in some instances they increase the price ten fold - and some

of these drugs have been around for 60 years! We better follow Carolyn's

suggestion and let our voices heard in Washington.

I sent out the full story on the mailing list this morning.

Andy

Cost of meds

> Sunday, Mar. 12, the New York Times has an article on

> the cost of cancer drugs. I am writing to all my

> congress men about it. I tried to reprint it here ,

> but it is too large. here is the reference. Carolyn

>

>

> A Cancer Drug's Big Price Rise Disturbs Doctors and

> Patients

> By ALEX BERENSON

> The price of cancer medicines is soaring, but the

> increases

> tend to have little relation to the cost of developing

> or

> making the drugs.

>

> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/business/12price.html?th & emc=th

>

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[Guest guest]

We had a similar article in our newspaper. So the article probable was picked

up by a number of papers.

Gordon

Carolyn Swift <swift_carolyn@...> wrote:

Sunday, Mar. 12, the New York Times has an article on

the cost of cancer drugs. I am writing to all my

congress men about it. I tried to reprint it here ,

but it is too large. here is the reference. Carolyn

A Cancer Drug's Big Price Rise Disturbs Doctors and

Patients

By ALEX BERENSON

The price of cancer medicines is soaring, but the

increases

tend to have little relation to the cost of developing

or

making the drugs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/business/12price.html?th & emc=th

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[Guest guest]

Thx, Don, but maybe I've been misunderstanding...what I thought I've been

hearing and even someone at clinic said ( I think ?) is with average insurance

the co-pays can still be that high. One lady was saying with her military

insurance( can't remember what that's called ) it was something like 1200.00 a

month!! Anybody out there able to put my mind at ease ? Or do I need to put my

first- borne up for auction on Ebay?? I have BC/BS but like the new anti dep

cost me 80.00 out of pocket; insurance covered other half. Just stressin'.

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[Guest guest]

Very sensible advice--especially the letter from the doctor.  I always had mine write that my meds were for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.  The minute customs see that they stop questioning and can't get you out of there fast enough.  Provided, of course, you aren't going to a  place that restricts travel by HIVers...  

Re the Androgel--what I always do is peel off the prescription label from the box and put it on the bottle--covering the part that says flammable alcohol based gel. Works like a charm.  The only time I've had a problem is when I didn't have the prescription label.  A surly officer at Heathrow once insisted on confiscating my androgel because I didn't have the prescription (he wasn't smart enough to have read the fine print about it being flammable)  Even though it's written on the label that it's by prescription only, if you don't have your dr's script they can and will confiscate it if they feel like it.

Jeff