Health care assistance needed to cover MS injection

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jaykateri
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Health care assistance needed to cover MS injection

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Any tips on were to go to get health insurance to cover the copaxone drug? I am currently uninsured and had no idea it was so expensive! about 40,000 a year

I'm a student just working part time and i need something. any advice is great! thanks
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Most of the MS pharma's have financial assistance programs that are based on income. Have you looked into that yet?
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Please contact Shared Solutions (http://copaxone.com/AboutSharedSolutions.aspx). Ask for the financial assistance department. And good luck to you!
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thank you to both of you :)
i will look into both!
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jaykateri wrote:Any tips on were to go to get health insurance to cover the copaxone drug? I am currently uninsured and had no idea it was so expensive! about 40,000 a year

I'm a student just working part time and i need something. any advice is great! thanks
Amazing how a drug which has been used for MS for over 15 years can still cost $ 40,000 year...which is more expensive than when it first came out!!
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Many choose diet to treat MS. There are studies showing drugs do no good.



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/healt ... .html?_r=3&
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It seems for every study there is an equal and opposite study. A variation of a physics law!

I read today that Copaxone will be off-patent soon. That opens the door for generic versions. Could be less expensive for jaykateri.
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Sparky10 wrote:It seems for every study there is an equal and opposite study. A variation of a physics law!

I read today that Copaxone will be off-patent soon. That opens the door for generic versions. Could be less expensive for jaykateri.
What these companies have been known for is to make a slight alteration to the drug and then get another patent for it. They don't allow their cash cow to disappear!

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I applied last year to Shared Solutions and did not get any assistance from them. Has anyone found them helpful?
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