[split] Dimethylfumarates and Psoriasis

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Continued from RE: Cosentyx - Week 1....and beyond...., as we were stealing Angels thread.

[quote='Bill' pid='65419' dateline='1449658312']
You dont pick your drug like you pick the flavours of gelati or milkshakes, nor do you necessarily get your drug of choice. In this instance the insurance company is rescinding access to a very effective drug because of its cost. Cost is a major factor, which is why drugs like methotrexate are still used. The reason you dont see regimes like the one I suggested is because the treatment protocol involves treating patients with the cheapest drugs available. By the time you go on Enbrel and its ilk you dont have other options. Sadly you dont have access to DMF in the US for treating p. Why? Because it doesn't work? It leaves mtx for dead in terms of efficacy and safety and could be saving the health system a substantial amount.

Cheers,

Bill

Over here in the USA you do as long as have decent employee based insurance. Forcing people to take medication they don't want to take will work as well as the prohibition. People simply will not take it. With this disease they'll end up costing more than any biologic. Just ask my dad about that one, he's already had 500,000 USD in surgery this year alone.