As a person who has to fight my insurance over my continued existence on a regular basis, I understand the reflex of the fuck are they getting $1700 from me. It's an unconscionable amount to demand. I think it is worth waiting to see what happens with the insurance verification, but if the co-pay card does not pan out to rendering your etanercept—I feel I should put air quotes around this next word—affordable, then I think you should permit your friends to chip in to get it for you, because it's not like your body is going to be fine, or become more functional, not taking it. The asthma is not a minimal side effect. The more the disease isn't treated, the more time and effort and cost and exhaustion it's going to take to get the situation back under control. And a month of anything flaring is not cool.
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Date: 2021-02-11 06:25 am (UTC)As a person who has to fight my insurance over my continued existence on a regular basis, I understand the reflex of the fuck are they getting $1700 from me. It's an unconscionable amount to demand. I think it is worth waiting to see what happens with the insurance verification, but if the co-pay card does not pan out to rendering your etanercept—I feel I should put air quotes around this next word—affordable, then I think you should permit your friends to chip in to get it for you, because it's not like your body is going to be fine, or become more functional, not taking it. The asthma is not a minimal side effect. The more the disease isn't treated, the more time and effort and cost and exhaustion it's going to take to get the situation back under control. And a month of anything flaring is not cool.
*hugs* if useful.