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I am a 63 year CML patient. The cost of my Gleevec is $3,000 per month. My insurance covers most of it. In two years I will have to move to Medicare and it will cost me approximately $4,000 per year for this drug. It is my understanding that to qualify for assistance you must have no insurance at all. This drug will very likely allow me to live a full life span . . . my father lived to the age of 101. What insurance will fund my Gleevec for 720,000 should I live for only 20 years more and assume the price does not increase? If the answer is "what the market will bear" and you are dealing with a fata disease such as this, I guess the sky is the limit.
Nancy