[Notary Sojac]

a move that would force patients with insurance or Medicare coverage to pay for the drug out of their own pocket

The options are:

Medicare patients will pay for it out of their own pocket, or

Taxpayers will pay for it with the threat of imprisonment if they refuse.

Take your choice, there are no magic unicorns who will defecate bottles of the drug.

[sheana]

At a cost of up to $100k per year noone will pay for Avastin out of their own pockets.

[webboy45]

This article has things wrong. Avastin has never been shown to help breast cancer patients. The FDA originally oked its use so the FDA director could get a cushy job at Roche. These are all well known facts in the industry. And, in an unprecedented move the FDA has invited Roche to justify the drug's use in breast cancer.

[nascarnation]

Medicare is only underfunded long term by $72 Trillion or so.
How could this be?

/sarc