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In reply to the discussion: Drug Goes From $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight [View all]Cassidy
(202 posts)The generic drug that I must take has quadrupled in price in the last 10 months.
This drug has been in use since the 1960s. I have to take it for epilepsy, so I, like the thousands of others who take it, expect to take it for the rest of my life. The insurance company claims it is shortages of raw materials and they have to pass along the price increase, but could not tell me which raw materials were in short supply. I know people with other diseases who have experienced similar exorbitant increases in their medications, whether or not they are generic.
A few months ago, when the price had only tripled, I wrote to Senator Bennet (D-CO) and got an irrelevant form letter in return. I wrote to Senator Gardner (R-CO) and got nothing in response.
What use is "health insurance" if you can't afford the co-pay for the medicine?