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>> The following program is
a PBS Wisconsin original

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production.
>> I just remember walking

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in and she had it written
down on a piece of paper,

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no longer covered by
insurance.

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>> What would you do?
>> We always assume that he

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kind of ran some life
choices and said rent or

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this, and thought he could
do without it.

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>> If your medicine was
suddenly not covered by

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insurance.
>> We need $13,000 before

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we can ship this.
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And I said $13,000.
>> If you had to pay

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hundreds or thousands of
dollars up front.

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>> Yes.
to be delivered without

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insurance.
>> Before getting a life

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saving prescription.
>> Because the patients

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really don't understand
what's going on with their

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benefits.
>> And it all seems too

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complicated to understand.
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survival mode, and you're
just trying to figure out,

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like, do I go to work and
make money? Or do I deal

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with this disease?
>> We have the fifth

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highest health care costs
in the nation, and our

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quality does not reflect
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>> These patients are
confused, they're

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overwhelmed, and they're
forced into impossible

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decisions about their
health.

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>> Good evening. I'm
Marissa Wojcik, series

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producer of Here and Now.
Tonight on our program,

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we're bringing you a series
of stories about

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prescription medication
becoming increasingly

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unaffordable in Rx
Uncovered. We'll dive into

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the complex systems driving
these trends and the

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stories of patients facing
life or death choices. We

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look at how and why more
health plans are not

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covering life saving
medication. The real life

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impacts this is having on
Wisconsin patients, who's

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trying to change it, and
what you should know about

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your plan. It's "Here& Now"
for January 2nd.

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>> Funding for "Here& Now"
is provided by the Focus

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Fund for Journalism and
Friends of PBS Wisconsin.