While we’re busy working on some big projects this summer, we’re re-releasing some of our most ambitious and useful reporting to date. 

Last year, we set out on a mission: Collect all the best advice about what to do when your prescription drugs cost more than you can afford. 

Our listeners wrote to us about their experiences getting around this most demoralizing — and distinctly American — problem in order to get the medicine they need.

Those responses allowed us to map a whole landscape of potential fixes — none a guaranteed solution for everyone, every time — but all worth knowing about. 

In this episode, you’ll meet some of the intrepid navigators charting the path — including a dad on a mission to afford his daughter’s epilepsy medication, a Medicare coach who helps seniors save tens of thousands of dollars on meds, a pharmaceutical sales rep with a brilliant short-term fix, and other generous and smart fellow travelers.   

We documented all their advice and more in our Prescription Drug Playbook. 

Here’s a transcript of this episode. 

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