I was on Betaseron for years, but slipped into SPMS and have since discontinued any DMD...so I have no bias toward any med.
Yesterday in the mail, I received a large envelope with a very high end brochure ( really more than a brochure, more like a booklet.) It was from Biogen and touting the reasons Tec was a superior med. So I read through it for information sake.
I get to the page about the $10 copay, and it raised all kinds of questions. If this med runs in the $50,000/yr range, why are they "giving" it away for $120/yr. Who's paying the rest of the cost? And unlike any other DMD program I'm familiar with, it's not needs based, which seems strange. Also Medicare and Medicaid MSers are not eligible for the copay...why is that? Seems like those on Medicaid, or Medicare, for that matter, would be the ones that should get the lower copay since Medicare is fixed income and Medicaid is low income. None of it makes sense to me, so if anyone knows how/why the $10 copay works, I'd love to know...pharmaceuticals don't give things away, somebody has to be footing the cost.
The only other "puzzlement" is how did Biogen get my name. In the past 10 years only MS literature in the mail has been from Beta (Bayer) and Narcoms.
So I wonder who "sold" my info, the fact that I have MS and my address to Biogen. That definitely bothers me.
Yesterday in the mail, I received a large envelope with a very high end brochure ( really more than a brochure, more like a booklet.) It was from Biogen and touting the reasons Tec was a superior med. So I read through it for information sake.
I get to the page about the $10 copay, and it raised all kinds of questions. If this med runs in the $50,000/yr range, why are they "giving" it away for $120/yr. Who's paying the rest of the cost? And unlike any other DMD program I'm familiar with, it's not needs based, which seems strange. Also Medicare and Medicaid MSers are not eligible for the copay...why is that? Seems like those on Medicaid, or Medicare, for that matter, would be the ones that should get the lower copay since Medicare is fixed income and Medicaid is low income. None of it makes sense to me, so if anyone knows how/why the $10 copay works, I'd love to know...pharmaceuticals don't give things away, somebody has to be footing the cost.
The only other "puzzlement" is how did Biogen get my name. In the past 10 years only MS literature in the mail has been from Beta (Bayer) and Narcoms.
So I wonder who "sold" my info, the fact that I have MS and my address to Biogen. That definitely bothers me.
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