*Hello my fellow Survivors: * *Well, my hubby and I had a great big surprise when he went to refill his prescription for blood pressure medicine a couple of weeks ago. He found out that we had been dropped by our previous insurance as of September 30th. Wasn't that sweet......no notice what so ever! Thank goodness that I have a few bottles of Gleevec on hand as it came time to reorder. Anyhoo, he put us in for COBRA and got us started as of last Friday. When we sold our business last spring, the new owners were to keep our insurance going for at least one year after the sale, but that did not happen. You cannot trust people today to do what they tell you they will do. At least we found out in the time period to get the other started. Now, we are covered for the next 18 months. *
* Here is what I wanted to tell you that I learned.......my husband had me call to order my Gleevec as there was a chance that I was still covered. The pharmacy tech told me that "no, I wasn't until Dec. 1st" (not true now, have a new card) anyway, I just asked her what the cost of 100mgs. of Gleevec for one month would cost if one had to pay cash money. She checked and came back on and said "$3000". I was stunned.....I told her that I sure thought that the price would have gone down, instead it is like it went up more since I first started taking it. The last price I had while I was still doing 400mgs. and that was around 4 and 1/2 years ago, it was getting really close to that $6000 mark for 1 month. The reason I knew the cost, the stupid pharmacy I ordered thru the mail from included a receipt of the cost. I always thought it odd for them to do that since I paid a co-pay of 25$ back then, but oh well, it was interesting to watch the price rise each month. I kept thinking that Novartis wouldn't have dibs on the Patent any longer by now and the price would drop and Generic brand would be in the works. Guess that is what I get for thinking! :)* Let's all keep looking up! Suzieq -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
