Forty-six percent of U.S. adults — regardless of insurance type — reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research think tank. The report analyzed findings from a December 2025 survey of 10,000 working-age adults across the nation.
GSK, glaxo kiline smith is a british pharm company, andrew witty was past ceo of thiers they make bank in america, that they couldnt in the UK apparently.
My wife’s heart medication, which is not a daily thing, only on demand, is staggering without insurance. Her kids in the Philippines send it to her for $10.
Canada has it for $300 a month. That’s my emergency plan, although I’d have to drop my health insurance plan for it. Sadly other countries don’t have it yet.
I’m so sorry. I wouldn’t wish endo on my worst enemy. It is a hell that anyone who hasn’t experienced cannot understand.
My meds were $1300 a month without insurance. It required pre-authorization from the insurance that needed to be redone every 6 months and I could only get 28 days filled at a time, but it only cost me something like $20. The side effects were awful, but not nearly as awful as the alternative.
I’m eternally grateful for the fact that after years of pain and begging dismissive doctors to treat me I found an amazing surgeon who went “why are you still dealing with this when you don’t want kids, you want a hysterectomy, I’ll do one” and by some miracle my insurance company also approved it without arguing about it. I also got lucky that I had my initial visit just before my employer’s year end open enrollment for insurance, so I did the math and figured out that I’d save a lot of money if I switched for the year to the higher premium/low deductible insurance they offered. My entire surgery, pre-surgery labs, pre surgery surgeon visits, prescription and OTC medications, and other little stuff I needed for recovery all cost me less than $1000 total.
The surgery was hands down the best thing that ever happened to me.
biologics are expensive but my dermatologist recently reccomended a biologic for atopic dermatitis, because how extensive and and severe it was. i checked on peoples experience trying to get the injections, they have to go through a whole slew of pre-auth(taking more generic drugs, testings)
That’s great. I’ll probably end up going down the same route. Hormonal suppression is the only thing that works for my pain so getting my ovaries out will probably be the only thing that works in the end.
Good luck! I still have my ovaries and so I still have some pain, but it’s so minor compared to what I used to be living with (like a 3-5/10 instead of a 9-10/10 on a daily basis) and not having to deal with bleeding 3 weeks out of the month is life changing.
I have checked everything. There are no alternatives yet. It’s fairly new, less than 10 years old and it’s for women’s pelvic pain which healthcare never seems to prioritize.
My endometriosis medication is $1000 a month in the US. I can’t afford to change jobs.
Here in West Europe (differs per country):
GSK, glaxo kiline smith is a british pharm company, andrew witty was past ceo of thiers they make bank in america, that they couldnt in the UK apparently.
That sounds so much nicer than the system we have.
My wife’s heart medication, which is not a daily thing, only on demand, is staggering without insurance. Her kids in the Philippines send it to her for $10.
Canada has it for $300 a month. That’s my emergency plan, although I’d have to drop my health insurance plan for it. Sadly other countries don’t have it yet.
I’m so sorry. I wouldn’t wish endo on my worst enemy. It is a hell that anyone who hasn’t experienced cannot understand.
My meds were $1300 a month without insurance. It required pre-authorization from the insurance that needed to be redone every 6 months and I could only get 28 days filled at a time, but it only cost me something like $20. The side effects were awful, but not nearly as awful as the alternative.
I’m eternally grateful for the fact that after years of pain and begging dismissive doctors to treat me I found an amazing surgeon who went “why are you still dealing with this when you don’t want kids, you want a hysterectomy, I’ll do one” and by some miracle my insurance company also approved it without arguing about it. I also got lucky that I had my initial visit just before my employer’s year end open enrollment for insurance, so I did the math and figured out that I’d save a lot of money if I switched for the year to the higher premium/low deductible insurance they offered. My entire surgery, pre-surgery labs, pre surgery surgeon visits, prescription and OTC medications, and other little stuff I needed for recovery all cost me less than $1000 total.
The surgery was hands down the best thing that ever happened to me.
biologics are expensive but my dermatologist recently reccomended a biologic for atopic dermatitis, because how extensive and and severe it was. i checked on peoples experience trying to get the injections, they have to go through a whole slew of pre-auth(taking more generic drugs, testings)
That’s great. I’ll probably end up going down the same route. Hormonal suppression is the only thing that works for my pain so getting my ovaries out will probably be the only thing that works in the end.
Good luck! I still have my ovaries and so I still have some pain, but it’s so minor compared to what I used to be living with (like a 3-5/10 instead of a 9-10/10 on a daily basis) and not having to deal with bleeding 3 weeks out of the month is life changing.
have you checked costplus, mark cubans site. or goodrx? if its a specialty drug it might be more difficult.
I have checked everything. There are no alternatives yet. It’s fairly new, less than 10 years old and it’s for women’s pelvic pain which healthcare never seems to prioritize.
might try checking cost+ drugs to see if they have it
It’s not.