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SOS: Why won’t Medicare cover cheaper drug? – WSJ

Submitted by Best Of Madcity on Sunday, 5 July 2009No Comment

Here are the options Medicare has given 69-year-old Bob McGinnis for treating his severe rheumatoid arthritis: Take a bimonthly, hospital-administered medication that doesn’t help but costs him nothing out-of-pocket, or take a biweekly self-injected medication that relieves his pain but costs him several thousand dollars a year.

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SOS: Why won’t Medicare cover cheaper drug? – WSJ

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