Originally Posted by hjmom

Wow, that is unreal! I had the option of the insurance through my employer and I pay less for family coverage than the Avonex costs. Are you close to being able to get Medicare Vic? I'd definitely drop the insurance then if I were you.

Since my MS dx we double insure through my DH's employer and mine - my DH's employer is self insured and they gave us all sorts of issues with the Avonex price. Since I took the plan through my employer there hasn't been any issues, I have a $50 copay.

Originally Posted by lady_express_44

I read your first response to imply that perhaps your insurance company is not paying the total cost of your drugs . . . that you are being subsidized in some other way. I thought that was the case, because I seemed to recall something about Biogen agreeing to subsidize some of the Tysabri a few months ago...?

But you are saying you are paying about $100,000 a year in insurance?

How can anyone possibly afford that?

Why so much, because you joined up after your dx?

Cherie

Originally Posted by SallyC

For me, the point is moot, since I'm on Retirement SS, now. But I paid for Private Family Health Ins Coverage untill I was 62 and then Single Cov, at around 1,000,00 per month, unill I went on Medicare, at 65.

For the last few years of that, I had no income, except SS (I retired at 62), but I had assets...booooooo....and didn't have enough work credits to apply for SSDI. What can I say...I was between a rock and a hard place.

I guess what I'm saying is that, there should be some kind of a reprieve for those, like me, who fall through the cracks between poverty and okie dokie..

We're damned if we do and damned if we don't, Vic.....KWIM?