Consumer Confidential: It shouldn't take generous strangers to help patients cope with drug prices
by By David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
Aug 21, 2017
3 minutes
The inherent goodness of people was made clear last week when a pair of readers offered to pay for a 75-year-old Southern California man's prescription meds after the drug maker imposed a $1,100 deductible to be eligible for financial assistance.
Meanwhile, the warped priorities of our for-profit health care industry once again tumbled into the open as the drug company in question, Eli Lilly & Co., responded to this demonstration of humanitarian fellowship with a shrug of its corporate shoulders.
Call me a starry-eyed optimist, but I had a notion
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