Please Help!

I need your help in getting the cancer drug Avastin (a form of chemo) covered by Medicare. This is the same drug, Avastin, Senator Kennedy's doctor prescribed for his brain tumor. However Medicare will not approve it as a 1st tier treatment. It is very expensive, but also very effective. If you get cancer after age 65 you don't have access to the best treatments. If Medicare doesn't approve a treatment your supplemental insurance won't approve it either. That is scary!!! It is over $30,000 per "dose" and so the doctors don't prescribe it even if it might help since Medicare won't cover. And, the secondary insurance won't pay for it when Medicare doesn't. If you are poor, you can get it on a special program thru the drug companies, but if you are regular working folks, you make too much money to get it covered.

Please write your representative regarding this matter. you can even cut and paste the message above. Here is the info to send to the congress persons from your district. The link that is provided gives the list of your representatives and hooks you into their e-mail addresses.


The website : http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

Send to everyone you know who might be interested. Please help me with this matter.

Thanks!