With an annual income of less than $20,000, Saundra Johnson doesn’t come close to being able to afford the 12 medications her doctors have prescribed for congestive heart failure, diabetes and related complications.
<p>She is one of the many who finds herself “in between,” as one of her doctors described it, narrowly missing the requirements for assistance even as she makes too little to afford her prescriptions.
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