What a Great Night ...

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no I'm not speaking of votes or elections. Tonight was the third Stem Cell Celebration we attended at Memorial Sloan Kettering for transplant patients who have survived for over a year. It was wonderful to see and hear of those who have gone before us.

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1. Thanks ...

for the recs, I've not paid too much attention to politics in the past few years. Just trying to survive even with a great HC plan, but still there are high annual out of pocket expenses to be paid.

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2. You have to look past the premiums ...

http://www.lls.org/#/diseaseinformation/getinformationsupport/aca/details/

"Bronze coverage is insufficient for patients with high-cost medical needs The bronze plans include very high patient "co-insurances" on both medical services as well as prescription drugs. This means that patients enrolling in the bronze plans could expect to pay as much as 50% of the price of costly services and therapies such as chemotherapy, PET scans, or prescription drugs. As a cancer patient, or any consumer with high-cost medical needs, paying a co-insurance rather than a flat copayment every time you go to the doctor or the pharmacy can quickly become unaffordable. Below is a look at a handful of states and how plans in those states will price specialty drugs for patients in a bronze plan as well as in a silver plan. The chart highlights the risks associated with bronze coverage: In every state here except New York, high patient co-insurances are prevalent in bronze coverage. - See more at: http://www.lls.org/#/diseaseinformation/getinformationsupport/aca/details/"