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05/10/16 2:24 PM

#80162 RE: dockside130 #80145

PCSK9,s Too Expensive to Compete

From Preventive Cardiology:

"I was fortunate to have the opportunity to speak at length with Matt Perrone prior to his submitting an April 20th article on the PSCK9 inhibitors’ unexpectedly low uptake in the medical community. His piece was excellent; yet it failed to address the most salient aspect of this problem: Patients are suffering.

As I stated in my March 21st article on the same topic, the basis for the paucity of patients using these medications is not physicians’ reluctance to prescribe, or their need for outcomes data, or even their inappropriate utilization of these treatments. Instead, insurance providers are blocking patients’ access. This is what accounts for the small number of people currently taking PCSK9 inhibitors......" Less