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1-Old-Man

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3. I find this interesting, having just had an $8,000 per month prescription approved

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 05:02 PM

Apr 2013

I have cancer and my Oncologist perscribed a new drug for me that I will be taking soon, it appears to cost somewhere between $6,700~8,000 per month. I am on Medicare with backup insurance coming from my old Federal Blue Cross/Blue Shield. These pills are going to cost me $80 for a three month supply. So apparently Medicare isn't completely done with us cancer patients.

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