Medication Prices
Patients can't count drug discounts toward health insurance deductible
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The Columbus Dispatch
![Julie Turner of Vandalia, Ohio, travels to the Madison Avenue Pharmacy in Springfield, Ohio, which offers her twice-a-year treatments for weakened bones at a lower cost.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.usatoday.com/gcdn/presto/2021/04/07/NCOD/8b802486-3257-48e3-b772-270cbb7c9255-CEB_DRUG_PRICE_GAMES_BJP_02.jpg?width=300&height=454&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Julie Turner was just 17 when she needed powerful doses of radiation and chemotherapy to wipe out her stage 3 Hodgkin lymphoma.
The harsh, 12 rounds of chemo and 60 radiation treatments at Ohio State University hospital in the 1970s came with two major side effects: She was sterile, and her bones became abnormally brittle, eventually requiring a twice-a-year regimen in the hospital for medication to reduce her risk for fractures.