$17,000 per Month: How Sky-High Prescription Prices Take Toll on Patients$17,000 per Month: How Sky-High Prescription Prices Take Toll on Patients
Patients Sarah, Beth Kitchin, and Sanie Mikaelian, in file photos. Courtesy of Sarah, Beth Kitchin, and Sanie Mikaelian
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$17,000 per Month: How Sky-High Prescription Prices Take Toll on Patients

Insurance and financial stability don’t always insulate people from the impact of high drug prices.
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By Lawrence Wilson
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“If I were 10 percent less mean or 10 percent less stubborn, I’d probably be dead,” Sarah, a multiple sclerosis patient, said when describing her year-long battle to obtain the medication that could alter the course of the incurable condition and extend her productive life for years.

Diagnosed at age 37, Sarah said she experienced symptoms of this disease of the central nervous system, which can include numbness, weakness, troubling walking, vision changes, and slurred speech.

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