Real Stories, Real People
Patient Testimonies
To keep advocating for others, I need to afford my medication.
My name is Samantha Norris and I’m from Auburn Hills, Michigan. The drugs keeping my Hodgkin’s lymphoma in remission are priced at more than $1 million a year. I’m currently $20,000 in debt due to my health challenges, including from covering the exorbitant prices of my medications. Bills arrive all the time, and I’m overwhelmed […]
Patient Testimonies
Luxury pricing for a necessity.
My name is Kat Schroeder, I live in Arlington Virginia, and since the age of 9, I have been living with type 1 diabetes. That means that every day — every hour, really — since I turned 9, I have relied on insulin just to stay alive. This insulin is currently priced at almost $300 […]
Patient Testimonies
Changes are terrifying because of the high price of insulin
My name is Blythe and I will be 26 in August. I’m a very happy newlywed and live with my husband in Chandler, Arizona. At age 7, I survived a life threatening health scare that landed me in the hospital. Doctors eventually diagnosed me with Type 1 Diabetes. I was very fortunate that my family […]
Patient Testimonies
Drug prices have made me sicker
My name is Ashley Suder. I’m from Morgantown, West Virginia, and I live with lupus, an autoimmune disease where my immune system attacks my healthy tissue, resulting in painful inflammation that damages my skin, joints, blood vessels and brain. Lupus is chronic and lifelong. The drug I take now, Benlysta, works well, but it’s especially […]
Patient Testimonies
Meet P4AD’s New Digital Director, Tori Saylor.
My name is Tori Saylor, and I am excited to introduce myself as the new Digital Director at Patients For Affordable Drugs. As we near the end of my first week, I wanted to take a moment to tell you why I joined this fight. It’s pretty simple — I joined this movement because I […]
Patient Testimonies
In order to afford my insulin, I cut down my dose
My name is Judith Bentley, and I’m from Dallas, Oregon. In order to stay as healthy as I can, I take more than six medications, including prescriptions to treat bipolar 2 disorder, fibromyalgia, and diabetes. In 2020, the copays for my medication alone were $2,000. Maybe that’s not a lot of money for some people, […]
Patient Testimonies
I live at the mercy of drug prices.
I’m Kami Guiden, from Silver Spring, Maryland, and I’m 33 years old. For just over 20 years I’ve lived with Crohn’s disease, an incurable and chronic and inflammatory illness of the gastrointestinal tract. I also live with celiac disease. Affording my medications to manage my conditions is always on my mind. I absolutely have to […]
Patient Testimonies
There shouldn’t be a price tag on my life.
My name is Sa’ra Skipper, and I am a diabetes patient and advocate. I have lived with type 1 diabetes since the age of 5. My entire life with this disease has been a roller coaster. I was diagnosed at such a young age that I don’t really know what it meant to live with […]