For 16 years, Larry Gruber, a fitness coach from Wilton Manors, Florida, received a coupon card to help him pay for a psoriatic arthritis medication he needs that costs more than $7,700 a month. Each year, Amgen, which makes the drug, called Enbrel, sent the coupon card worth thousands of dollars, and that counted toward Gruber’s health insurance deductible and out-of-pocket maximum.
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My mother has been a hypertension patient for the past 25 years. Ever since her initial diagnosis, she has adhered strictly to her prescribed medication. Yet since the genocide broke out, her medicine gradually ran out until it vanished from the markets altogether, with no clinic, pharmacy, warehouse, or stockpile left untouched by the shortage. Eventually, my mother was forced to redraw her…
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A day after Hurricane Helene ripped through western North Carolina in late September 2024, Toni Brewer had no power or water. The storm had strewn fallen trees across most roads, wiped out phone and internet communications, and put some neighborhoods near her Asheville home underwater. Brewer cleared out the food in her refrigerator, grabbed some clothes, and drove more than an hour southwest…
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday launched a website, branded with his name, in a purported effort to help patients buy prescription drugs at lower prices. But experts, watchdog groups, and Democratic lawmakers said TrumpRx will likely do little for consumers — or for the broader goal of bringing down exorbitant medicine costs — while further enriching Big Pharma and potentially lining…
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Wrapped in a flashy fur coat she’d found at a thrift store for the occasion, Hannah Goetz blew out the candles on her favorite red velvet cheesecake. It was her 21st birthday. The celebration with her family that evening in February 2023 was a milestone not just for her age, but because she was alive. Three and a half years before, her lungs had collapsed from cystic fibrosis.
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