Financial Security, Lasting Relief: How the Inflation Reduction Act Restores Health to Patients and Hope to Their Doctors

MedCity News October 31, 2024
Dr. Belinda Birnbaum

For those who rely on these treatments, affordable medication access is a matter of health, freedom, and dignity, and their mechanisms and outcomes are non-partisan.

I frequently have conversations with my patients in their early sixties who are planning for retirement – an important part of which is transitioning from commercial insurance to Medicare. When making this switch, a common concern for my older patients is ensuring they can still access their medications to manage their rheumatological conditions comfortably and affordably.

Injectable biologic medications, like Enbrel, are a highly effective but expensive, life-changing treatment option for rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis. However, many patients have often found these medications out of reach because of their high cost, and Medicare was...

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