Million-dollar drug keeps local woman alive

A rare blood disorder means Lisa Gose of Middletown will have to take a drug called Soliris for the rest of her life.

“Without question it saved her life,” her husband Don says.

Now the Goses have to figure out how to pay for it. Soliris is one of the most expensive drugs on the planet.

Lisa Gose’s condition may be rare, but her story is similar to many Americans being asked to pay an increasing portion of their health care costs, including inexplicably high-priced prescription drugs. Most people have no idea why the prices being billed are so high.

This news organization has been examining the secret world of prescription drug pricing and the ways in which everyone is footing the bill for those prices through higher health care premiums, deductibles and copays.

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