Insurance and Healthcare

[ponygirl]

Originally Posted by SirMoby

I have some friends that are doctors and one of them often prescribes a treatment that costs him over $5,000 to administer a single drug dosage.

my husband takes Remicade every 6 weeks, which costs from $3500-$5000 for a single infusion. We are lucky in that his insurance coverage at work covers it (not without a fight, mind you) with the basic reality being if he didn't get the medication, they would be paying him for disabilty. I guess they figured it's cheaper this way. If we didn't have that coverage, I don't know what we'd be doing. I really don't know how some people do it, it's shameful that people go bankrupt paying for this stuff, or go without.