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Medication Prices

Patients can't count drug discounts toward health insurance deductible

Darrel Rowland
The Columbus Dispatch
Julie Turner of Vandalia, Ohio, travels to the Madison Avenue Pharmacy in Springfield, Ohio, which offers her twice-a-year treatments for weakened bones at a lower cost.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Julie Turner was just 17 when she needed powerful doses of radiation and chemotherapy to wipe out her stage 3 Hodgkin lymphoma. 

The harsh, 12 rounds of chemo and 60 radiation treatments at Ohio State University hospital in the 1970s came with two major side effects: She was sterile, and her bones became abnormally brittle, eventually requiring a twice-a-year regimen in the hospital for medication to reduce her risk for fractures.