I Hope Tomorrow Will Be Better, and I Hope This Day Will Come Sooner.

Yesterday afternoon, I went to the cinema to watch the domestic movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine". The movie story is actually very simple. A story of chronic myelogenous leukemia patients struggling to survive.

Forty thousand yuan a bottle of pricey drug Lenin, a bottle can only be used for a month. It takes 480,000 yuan a year, how rich the family is to afford this medicine!

In reality, the drug whose real name is Gleevec costs 23,500 yuan per bottle. Moreover, they did not enter the medical insurance system before 2017, and patients need to take nearly 300,000 yuan a year to take genuine medicines, which does not include the money to go to the hospital for various examinations.

Not to mention ordinary families, even ordinary wealthy families with an annual income of one million will find it a bit difficult to support this disease. Ordinary ordinary families really spend their money until they run out of money and can only wait to die.

I don't want to discuss the question of who is right and wrong between genuine and pirated drugs in the movie, and I am not qualified to discuss it.

In fact, it is the same as the story in the movie that the patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia have to take Gleevec all the time. In fact, I also need to take the medicine for a long time in reality.

The medicine I take is Biraudine, which, like Gleevec, is a drug that must be taken for life and cannot be stopped once it is taken. Because once the drug is stopped, the virus in the body will quickly replicate and spread.

However, it is a little friendlier than patients who need to eat Gleevec because the price of Boluding is not so terrible. The price of a box of genuine Boludin is about 230 yuan in the hospital pharmacy.

It takes four and a half boxes a month, plus the registration fee is about 1,200 yuan a month. More than 14,000 yuan a year and this is not counting other auxiliary drugs. Although compared with Gleevec, the money is not much. But it's not so easy that it's not worth mentioning.

Fortunately, Gleevec was included in the medical insurance system in 2017. Today, 19 provinces across the country have included Gleevec in the medical insurance reimbursement. The reimbursement fee is seventy-five percent. After negotiation, the manufacturers of Gleevec also started to buy three and get nine free. This reduced the annual medical expenses of more than 300,000 yuan to more than 17,000 yuan.

However, there are still many patients who cannot afford such medical expenses, and still take generic drugs with low purity.

However, the Bolutime I am taking is still not included in the medical insurance system, and the cost of medication must be paid for by myself. The cost of Biraudine and auxiliary drugs is more than 20,000 yuan a year, which is not easy for me.

But I am lucky, because I can sit in front of the computer and share the stories I wrote to earn living expenses and medical expenses. Also because of the support of all book friends, my life is getting better and better.

But there are many more unfortunate people than me. If you know what kind of disease Birudin is for, you know that people with such a disease cannot engage in heavy physical exertion and long hours of work.

Not everyone can do a job like mine.

The medical expenses of more than 20,000 yuan a year are still not a burden that is too small to be ignored for ordinary Chinese families today. Perhaps for many people, this means that the family needs to save food and clothing and have no money left.

So many people choose to take generic drugs just like those leukemia patients who choose to take Indian generic drugs in the movie. Generic drugs of Birudin include domestic products and Indian ones.

Today, many leukemia patients are still taking Indian Gleevec. Because a bottle of Gleevec in India costs only 200 yuan, and it only costs 2,400 yuan a year. Compared with the medical insurance of 17,000 a year, the price is still cheaper.

And the same, although the price of Boluding is cheaper than Gleevec. But because it is not covered by health insurance, it is still expensive for many people. Many people choose to take generic drugs, compared to the price of a box of genuine drugs of more than 200 yuan. A box of generic drugs only costs more than 50 yuan to 80 yuan. And the weight of a box is twice that of genuine medicine.

This kind of medicine costs only about 2,000 yuan a year. As a kind of medicine that needs to be taken for life, this is the cost that ordinary people can afford.

However, this is still risky, because the purity of generic drugs can never be compared with genuine drugs. Whether it is India's imitation of Gleevec or China's imitation of Proudin, there are actually such problems.

Once the purity affects the efficacy of the medicine, and the virus in the patient's body spreads and replicates again, that is something that no one wants to see. This will only add to the already difficult situation of the family.

Today, Gleevec is included in the medical insurance systems of nineteen provinces. Although the price is still not cheap after being included in the medical insurance, the average family can barely afford it.

I hope that one day, more of these drugs will be included in the medical insurance.

It's like Biraudine, like those other lifelong medications.

Just like what Cheng Yong played by Xu Zheng said in the movie: I hope tomorrow will be better, and I hope this day will come sooner.