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This sounds like an issue with medical/financial literacy or possibly mental illness, which are also serious. The self-pay price is discounted and can get real
by 1123581321 8y ago
This sounds like an issue with medical/financial literacy or possibly mental illness,
which are also serious. The self-pay price is discounted and can get really low with the manufacturer coupons/rebates or the one pharmacy chains scan for you if you’re uninsured. Generics are available; they are not as error-proof as, e.g., Tresiba, but they would have saved his life. Switching from pens to vials saves money.
Please be kind if you reply; I am diabetic and have spent time trying to save money on a really high prescription copay. I’ve caught myself doing what this person did, rationing or going without when there were ways to get medicine. Thankfully I didn’t live alone and someone snapped me out of that thinking. I would like to see the FDA stop the stair-step method to keep generics from being widely prescribed but if you’re waiting for that, please don’t — there are temporary solutions in the meantime.
- helsinki 8y agoI had this problem during six months of self-employment. I found that the cheapest way to get good insulin (Novolog) is to fly to Bangkok / Chiang Mai and hit up all the pharmacies until you have a year's supply. If you're not unlucky, you shouldn't have a problem at the airports. I think it cost ~$25-35 USD for several pen cartridges of Novolog.
- 1123581321 8y agoThat is a great idea if it’ll keep that long. How effective was it towards the end of the year?
- ahodges22 8y agoYou don't even need to go that far for cheap insulin. I'm a type 1 diabetic in Seattle, and I've gone to Canada a few times for ~$25-$30/vial USD of Humalog (Novolog is also available) insulin. It's over the counter there, and I've never had an issue with US customs bringing up to a year supply back home.
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