Christian Clarity Review

I’m new to this. But this comes at personal experience.

Someone I know has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. It cannot be taken out surgically as it is inside their liver. It is not a candidate for chemo or radiological treatment. They have four GISTs (Gastrointestianl Stromal Tumors) in their liver. The tumors are of a slow acting nature according to the doctors. The tumors were found by accident ( i.e. in the grace of God) when another procedure had to be performed and a CT scan was necessitated.

Turns out that a company called Norvartis has patented a pill called Gleevec that is exactly what they need. It will not kill the cancer or cure the patient. But it has shrunken the tumors and extended the lifetime of the patients according to the Doctors personal experience with other patients in like circumstances.

So what’s the catch?

In the U.S., Norvartis, a Swiss company, wants $3000.00 a month for the medication.

This person is older and has Social Security, from which they pay to be covered by Medicare and Medicare Part D perscription coverage. The first month, that ocoverage paid half of the $3000.00 cost. The company got the whole.

Because of the cost, Medicare Part D expects the patient to pay the next several thousand dollars
( called a “donut hole of coverage” ) before picking up again. This person gets around 800.00 /month Social Security. Even the $1500.00 is almost double what they get every month. The medicine is so expensive that he will not even be able to afford to keep his Medicare coverage or his part D perscription coverage and he has other medications as well or pay any other bills.

Norvartis has what is called a Patient Assistance Program to assist those with financial needs to afford their medicine.

They called the number given on the webpage of Norvartis’s PAP program which states:

Novartis encourages patients to review and enroll into Part D prescription drug plans because of the benefits that these plans offer patients for all or many of their prescription drugs. The Novartis Patient Assistance Program does not require Part D Plan enrollment but we feel that patients must consider the potential healthcare and financial benefits that these plans offer to them before determining not to enroll. In order to assist patients in understanding the Medicare Part D benefit and what Part D plan enrollment may offer to them, Novartis has set up toll-free hotlines to provide information and assistance. Patients can call for general information about the Part D benefit, can receive help in determining what plans are available to them and can learn how to enroll into a Medicare Part D plan. Oncology and transplant patients should call 800-942-3424 and all others should call 800-620-3292.

Medicare beneficiaries who enroll in a Part D plan may be considered for the Novartis PAP based upon the following criteria:

Patients on Novartis transplant or oncology products who enroll in a Part D plan can continue to receive help through the Novartis PAP as long as they continue to meet eligibility criteria for the PAP, do not qualify for the LIS, and show financial hardship in affording their medications despite the Part D benefit coverage;

Other cases will be evaluated individually, based on the particular Novartis product, specific circumstances and financial hardship experienced.

Norvartis when called informed them that they were not eliglible for ANY assistence by Norvartis because he was already enrolled in Medicare Part D perscription program and referred them to another number for assistence. End of discussion.

The result is that the patient now has to look forward to a maze of numbers that will tell them if they will get any aid to pay Norvartis. Part D medicare says they will pay for all of the medications except for 5% after they have spent 3, 500.00 out of pocket expenses ( the so-called donut hole of coverage). After the 3500 dollars of personal expense, Medicare Part D is picking up 95% of the total drug bill for the rest of the year. –according ot paperwork sent them by Medicare.

It is a blessing from God that the medicine exists at all. It is not any evil at all to recoup investment costs and labor and make a profit on medications. But this is bizarrely evil.

Here in the U.S. Norvartis wants $3000.00 a month with no discussion from as many Americans as they can get it from. They are willing to assist to a degree in pointing out programs wherein they are paid the same but the patient doesn’t have to pay the whole. But –they still want $3000.00.

In India, Norvartis is suing to get a patent on Gleevec to stop Indian manufacturers from producing generic Gleevec at one tenth the cost. According to Norvartis, it is giving away the medicine to 99% of all those who use it in India and has concluded that there is no commercial market for it in India because it cost more than anyone there can afford. The lawsuit is oviously intended to set up a commercial market for it exclusively run by Norvartis.

The obvious truth is that Amercians are being functionally taxed so that the way business is done, “poorer” countries can get extremely costly medicines for free. It is yet another invisible tax by those who charge what is truly outrageous prices in one place on the premise that doing so enables charity elsewhere. In this instance it is over a life-extending medicine that if not paid for, the patient will die much sooner than without it.

It is a good thing and a blessing from God that the medicine can be given away to some. Yet is is wickedness to steal on that premise of what is essentially forced socialized medicine being practiced by private entities against the Americans on the premise of a supposed “guilt” over having a society “rich enough” to be stolen from over and over to benefit “poorer countries”.

It would be one thing for Americans to merely pay more than others for the same medicines. But the way the industries are marketing their products, Americans are expected to pay to all the cost of others medicines “or else” in the very midst of the lie of free will through the company saying it is “offering more choice.” The social non-science in which those who are doing the marketing combined with the reality that has produced the medicines is anti-Christ which is being held forward as a necessary thing that is being used in reality to pit one against another in an orchestrated attempt to not distribute the medicines where they are needed, but to cause that real distribution someplace to be a source of friction and antagonism in another that is both inefficient to that distribution and the global harmony free willers say they are after and which was the supposed purpose of the drug research.

Is the person in India who cannot possibly afford Gleevec supposed to spit it out because it was free and functionally given to them on the back of the American taxpayer and charitable donations to keep Americans in the best medicines? Of course not.

Are Americans supposed to die after being fleeced out of all they have to stay alive so that people they do not know can have the drugs they need for free? Of course not.

The global strategy of anti-Christ is not over money. The Indians and others could pay something for the drug. Americans could pay a lot less and still Norvartis could easily make a profit and make up any monies spent on research and development. It is not the money. It is an agenda of killing as many as possible in the guise of controlling the drugs needed to save them and once more is a simple kind of murder in the guise of at best, being inept at distribution in order to force an outcry for outright governmental socialized medicine. If the makers of Gleevec were only interested in money, they could license the generic manufacture of the drug. Instead they wish to stop that generic manufacture on the premise that what matters is the money for research and development being replenished to find more life-extending or life-saving drugs and that money is automatically thwarted by any other marketing scheme than their own.

In every other area those who define what money is have no qualms about simply making more of it to grow whatever they wish to grow with that very new money. (Designating ‘new areas’ of the economy in which money can be spent so that it may “grow” and be taxed..) Suddenly, as regards life extending and life saving medicines, money is automatically defined to be permanently scarce. That is not an “accident of evolution.” That is the same agenda that banned DDT from killing mosquitos and now Malaria is on the rise again all over the world. The floating definition of money and population control are joined at the hip.

Proverbs 11:25, 26 The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. He that withholdeth corn, the people curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen