Yesterday afternoon, I went to the cinema and watched the domestic movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine", and after watching it, I couldn't calm down for a long time, which made me feel like I had to say something. The story of the movie is actually quite simple. A story about patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia struggling to survive.

The sky-high price of 40,000 yuan a bottle of Grenin can only be eaten for a month. I have to eat 480,000 yuan a year, and my family must have more money to afford this medicine!

In reality, the real name of the drug is Gleevec, and a bottle will be sold for 23,005. Moreover, before 2017, it did not enter the medical insurance system, and patients need to take genuine drugs close to 300,000 yuan a year, not counting the money for going to the hospital for various examinations.

Not to mention ordinary families, even ordinary wealthy families with an annual income of one million will seem a little difficult to support this disease. The average ordinary family really spends their money until the mountains and rivers are exhausted, and then they can only wait for death.

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

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

The medicine I took was Boludin, which is a drug that you must take for life once you take the medication and cannot stop it. Because once the drug is stopped, then the virus in the body will replicate and spread rapidly.

However, the thing that is a little friendlier than the disease that needs to take Gleevec is that the price of Boludine is not so terrible. The price of a box of genuine Boluding is about 230 yuan for sale in hospital pharmacies.

I have to eat four and a half boxes a month, and the cost of registration is about 1,200 yuan a month. More than 14,000 yuan a year, and this is not counting other auxiliary drugs. Although compared to Gleevec, this amount of 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, and to date, 19 provinces across the country have included Gleevec in medical insurance reimbursement. Reimbursement is 75 per cent. After negotiations, Gleevec's manufacturers also began to buy three get nine free. This reduced the original medical expenses of more than 300,000 yuan a year to more than 17,000 yuan.

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

To this day, the Bolu I took is still not included in the medical insurance system, and the cost of the medication must be paid by myself throughout the process. The cost of Boludine and auxiliary drugs is more than 20,000 yuan a year, which cannot be said to be easy for me.

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

But there are many less fortunate people than me. If you know what kind of disease Boludine is a medicine for treatment, you know that people with such diseases are not able to work for heavy physical strength and long hours.

Not everyone can do this kind of work like I do.

The cost of more than 20,000 yuan a year for medical expenses is still not a small burden for ordinary Chinese families today, but it can be ignored. Perhaps for many, this means that the family will need to cut back and save a penny.

So many people choose to take generic drugs just like those leukemia patients in the movie who choose to take generic drugs in India. There are domestic and Indian generic drugs of Boludine.

To this day, many leukemia patients are still taking Gleevec India. 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 cheap.

And in the same way, although it is said that the price of Boluding is cheaper than that of Gleevec. But because it is not covered by medical insurance, it is still very expensive for many people. Many people choose to eat 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 to 80 yuan. And the amount of one box is twice that of the genuine medicine.

The cost of such a drug is only about 2,000 yuan a year, and as a drug that needs to be taken for life, this is what ordinary people can afford.

However, this is still risky, because the purity of generic drugs is never comparable to that of genuine drugs. Whether it is India's imitation of Gleevec or China's imitation of Boluding, there is actually this problem.

Once the purity affects the efficacy of the drug, so that the virus in the patient's body spreads and replicates again, it is what no one wants to see. This will only add to the situation for families who are already struggling.

Today, Gleevec is included in the health insurance system of 19 provinces. Although the price is still not cheap after being included in medical insurance, the average family can afford it.

Hopefully, one day, more of these drugs will be covered by medical insurance.

It's like Boludine, it's like all those other lifelong medications.

is 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 soon.