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> Turns out, they weren't able to find any patients who themselves had to pay anything close to $750/pill for the drug. It's not prescribed that commonly in the US, and the only patients who needed it were all on insurance plans that covered it, subject to standard copays and deductibles.

it's not uncommon for a doctor to ask, "are you on insurance? otherwise this drug would be too expensive for you". there is no statistic on how often this happens.




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