He'd been on it for years and knew that he was going to fail every single medication other than that one med that he needed. But his dad had switched jobs. He had new insurance. New Insurance companies said, we're not going to pay for that medication. You're going to have to go through every single med and fail it before we pay for this medication. And I knew what that was going to do to his grades, and it was going to make his junior year a disaster and affect the way that his ability to get into college. (12:29–12:40)
CLAIM
Asserts that insurance companies require patients to fail multiple medications before covering the needed one.
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