RE: The Long Game31 Oct 2021 11:20
JL,
Your focus is out of whack. I do not know if you know anyone that suffers from psoriasis, I do. If you did, and or listened to some of the testimonies on the AxisBiotix website, perhaps you would conclude as everyone else here does, the price is reasonable and not over and above alternatives that may not have undergone a consumer study to validate it.
It took me two minutes to find these two snippets of costs. Did you try?
There’s no cure for psoriasis, but ointments, creams, moisturizers, and other medications can relieve your symptoms. They aren’t always cheap though. One study tallied the average lifetime cost to treat psoriasis symptoms and related emotional health at $11,498. And that price tag likely doesn’t include biologics, one of the most expensive treatments for severe psoriasis.
Another source, though older, is more telling.
Psoriasis treatments can be very expensive. According to the National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF), one in three people with psoriasis have trouble paying for the cost of care. The issues range from having no health insurance to having health insurance with co-pays that are out of reach or no coverage for psoriasis treatments.
“There is no question that cost of treatment is a huge issue for many people with psoriasis,” says Colby Evans, MD, a dermatologist in Austin, Texas. “I would hope that no one sees their psoriasis go untreated because of the cost,” says Evans, who chairs the NPF’s National Phototherapy Copayment Task Force, which is working to help lower costs for patients.
Not only do frequent phototherapy treatments add up, but psoriasis medications can run into the thousands of dollars. A tube of topical psoriasis medications might cost between $500 and $600. And biologics, a relatively new class of treatment for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, can run $15,000 to $20,000 or more a year.
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