October 17, 2010
A Health Group Gets Drug Companies to Step Up to Support Patients
The Chronic Disease Fund’s Good Days campaign is among the appeals that helped the organization leap onto the Philanthropy 400 for the first time this year.
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The Chronic Disease Fund’s Good Days campaign is among the appeals that helped the organization leap onto the Philanthropy 400 for the first time this year.
At 32, Mike Banigan, a technology entrepreneur, was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel ailment. Even though he had insurance, he was required to pay $1,600 for each treatment of medicine to combat the disease.
He could afford the payments, but he wondered how others could. So in 2003, Mr. Banigan decided to do something about the high cost of medication by founding the Chronic Disease Fund to make sure patients receive life-saving drugs at a low cost. The fund
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