Many families in Ontario struggle to navigate insurance coverage to afford the drug, which costs about $300,000 a year for a single patient.
- Kim Steele, Cystic Fibrosis Canada
"If you have private insurance, you're excluded from that program [OHIP+] altogether, even if your insurance won't cover the full cost of the drug," Steele said. Dr. April Price, director of the pediatric cystic fibrosis clinic at the London Health Sciences Centre, describes Trikafta as a "game changer" in her patients' lives."What this drug has been able to do is really something from a science fiction movie brought to life," she said. "Things start to move which had been stuck for a long time, so cough and increased mucus production are some of the known results of starting the drug.
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