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Patient Testimonies
Big Pharma Wants Our Gratitude For Developing COVID-19 Vaccines. They Should Be Thanking Us.
by DAVID MITCHELL Big Pharma is begging for love. Multinational drug corporations want us to give them credit and thanks for the COVID-19 vaccines they are working to bring to market. They want us to overlook the fact that funding from American taxpayers has provided the lion’s share of the money to develop these vaccines. […]
Patient Testimonies
My name is Kip Burgess and I am from Chicago, Illinois. Eight years ago, I was diagnosed with an incurable condition called psoriatic arthritis. Prior to my diagnosis, I had always felt stiffness getting up in the morning, but hadn’t paid it much attention –– until one morning I woke up and was unable to […]
Patient Testimonies
High Prescription Drug Prices Perpetuate Systemic Racism. We Can Change It.
By Tomi Fadeyi-Jones, Chuck Hurley, Gloria Johnson-Cusack, Cal LaRoche, David Mitchell, Nicole Solomon-Mitchell As Democrats and Republicans consider how to deliver on their promises to lower drug prices made during the 2020 election, there’s an important imperative for reform that has gone underreported: High drug prices contribute to poor health outcomes and disproportionately harm Black […]
Patient Testimonies
We don’t have any choice but to figure out how to pay.
My name is Trevor Coyne and I’m from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My wife, Erica, has lived with rheumatoid arthritis for over a decade and faces astronomical prices for the drug she needs to treat her condition. Erica has taken methotrexate for her RA for years, but her doctor recently advised her to switch to Cimzia because […]
Patient Testimonies
My name is Sarah Duhart Clarke, and I live in Raleigh, North Carolina. Eleven years ago, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease. Diabetes is an incredibly expensive diagnosis. When I was first diagnosed, I was still a teenager and remained on my parents’ insurance. The cost of medicine and supplies created […]
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I didn't have any other choice.
My name is Samantha Rynearson and I’m from Selinsgrove, PA. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease after over a year-long battle fighting severe unexplained anemia. It was a relief to finally have answers, but it was devastating to learn that there was no cure and that I would be dealing with this disease for the […]
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There was no way I could afford either prescription.
My name is Miriam Wolfe and I’m from York, Maine. I live with chronic pain because I’m unable to afford the medications I need. Last year, I developed constant and severe pain that required analgesic suppositories to control. My doctor wrote a prescription for nifedipine and lidocaine that had to be filled at a compounding […]
Patient Testimonies
This relief comes with a steep price tag.
My name is Lisa Ann Wetzel-Trainor and I’m a chronic illness writer and after school art teacher. I live in Wall, NJ with my husband, Stephen, and our three rescue dogs. When I was 16, I experienced a trauma that left me with severe fibromyalgia and PTSD. At 19 years old, I was officially diagnosed […]