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I am a caregiver for my husband, and we are both 78 and 79. We are having a problem getting my husband's cancer medication, because of prior authorization. This has to stop!!! The doctor is prescribing this medication as part of his treatment, because he needs it to live!!! It doesn't matter how old you are, LIFE IS PRECIOUS!!! This prior authorization and decision is being made by people who are not doctors, and they are overriding what the doctor knows is the medication and treatment that you need to survive. [Prior authorization’s] causing great harm and unneeded stress to patients and loved ones when they're already fighting for their life against cancer that, without their prescribed medication, could and will kill them. Something needs to be done about this. IT IS SO WRONG!!!

Sharon H., Maryland