Hope they can survive Obamacare.
There are coupons and program offered by drug companies and you would surprised at what is out there if you do the actual work and search for it. In many cases, people just arent aware of them. I found a coupon that dropped my cough medicine from $300 down to $20. Freebies are even available for migraine meds to people that qualify. My mother was getting imatrex straight from the manufacturer i believe for free.
What likely happened is the drug companies caught wind of the story and contacted her to keep their name from being drug through the mud, or her local reps actually cared and reached out.
None of this changes that fact that Obamacare is a total failure.
I spent some time at MD Anderson in their particle accelerator lab. They use it to make cancer treatment drugs. Those things dont build themselves, though that one was built with private and public funds, and I have no clue what actually happens to that research or the drugs they produce. One of the techs that used the device explained what it did but it was so far over my head i just laughed at him.
Cancer med is big money and therapeutic approaches, aka drugs, are the new thing in the battle against cancer. Private industry getting public funds for research raises a moral grey area, especially when the “people” have paid part of the research bill, then, if they need those drugs, they get to write more checks.
It doesnt end with drugs either. GE dropped some serious grants for projects related to DI. There were EE’s building MRI’s out of what looked like radioshack parts. They were taking multicore design principles and applying them to DI sensors, essentially squeesing more sensors onto a single chip for higher resolution. Kind of like the multicore cpu’s we have in our computers. It was amazing stuff to see and looked like a movie with entire walls covered in massive equations. It was nice to feel like the dumbest person in the room. Very humbling.