I live in Socorro with my wife and two high school age children. My son has autism so he has been staying at home with me. We are on my wife’s insurance where we pay $800 a month. My insulin is costing me $400 a month. An injection for a back injury costs me $500 and we are slowly paying that off. We are putting off my required surgery until we can save up for the cost of the surgery.
The cost of my disease-modifying drug for my Multiple Sclerosis is over $10,000 a year: an out-of-pocket expense. If I live to the age that we expect, I’m going to run out of money. It’s time for the legislature to pass a drug pricing reform bill. See the full story.
I take Ozempic and struggle to afford the cost of my drugs. I often don’t get my drugs because they are too highly-priced. My health shouldn’t suffer because I cannot afford my prescriptions. No patient should forgo taking drugs because of drug companies’ desire to make an extra buck off our backs.
For the past 28 years, I’ve taken various $300,000 per-year drugs to treat my Gaucher’s disease. Like other patients, I appreciate the innovative breakthroughs for new treatments, but I can’t help but wonder if the price tag has reached the point of being absurd. These drug companies are earning unreasonable amounts, and they’re earning all of this profit off of people’s misfortune. Americans pay more for their prescription drugs than anyone else in the world. These unreasonably high drug prices have encouraged me to start fighting back and advocate for lower drug prices. Patients like me deserve leadership that works for affordable drugs.
Each month I take eight prescriptions. This past month, while picking up my prescriptions, I discovered my insurance no longer covered my sleeping pills. This was the first time I saw the list price of these pills. Having to purchase seven other pricey medications including Ranitidine meant I could not afford my sleeping pills at their full $46 per month cost. Not taking my sleeping pills has had detrimental effects on my health. Since running out of pills, I’ve barely been able to sleep. My health and wellbeing shouldn’t be contingent on month-to-month changes in my prescription costs and my ability to afford my drugs.
Both my mom and wife have diabetes and each month they both struggle with the high costs of their medications. My wife’s medication costs about $250 per month. These medications greatly help her health, but we often can’t afford them because of their high cost. We need changes that help families like mine who struggle to afford our medications.
I’ve been prescribed Ubrely for my severe Migraine Headaches. This medication is $259.11 dollars for 10 pills, and that is the donut hole price. I’ve been having migraines for about three years. I live on $1428.00 dollars a month I can’t afford some of my drugs, rent, food, and so on because of my fixed income. And no one seems to care…enough is enough!