Grieving parents couldn’t understand how their son died of an asthma attack. Then they found out how much his meds now cost

Grieving parents couldn’t understand how their son died of an asthma attack. Then they found out how much his meds now cost

Published on: 08/02/2025

What Shanon and her husband didn’t realize until that day in the pharmacy was that Cole’s routine medication was no longer covered by his provider and had jumped from $66 to $539.

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Man dies after inhaler cost jumps $500, according to family's lawsuit

Man dies after inhaler cost jumps $500, according to family's lawsuit

Published on: 05/02/2025

Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, suffered from asthma, a chronic disease, that he treated with an Advair Diskus inhaler that allegedly cost him no more than $66.

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