in commercial insurance. if a drug isn t on the formulary, it will count against your out of pocket limit or deductible. in this case it doesn t and l is so much varibility, patients are going to have to be careful because in some, it s tight. not a lot of drugs are cover asked others it s more generous but there are a lot of variables and not a lot of information. you know we talked about how now patients goring to find doctors are not covered by obamacare. now you re saying many prescription drugs are not going to be covered in obamacare we talked about going outside of the network, and try to get the doctor or drugs anyway you re not going to get a reimbursement
realize that my tumor tumors, my subcutaneous tumors, tumors that were poking out of my skin, were substantially shrinking with day seven. reporter: now susan relishes the new numbers in her life. in one month on the drug, her tumors shrunk 40%. in eight months, 70%. this is the first pill that you can take that will shrink your melanoma and we know will lead to you living longer. reporter: look at this pet in just two weeks this patient s tumors almost melted away. but this drug isn t for everyone. it only helps half the people with melanoma. this doesn t killllour normal cells. only cells dependent on this mutation. reporter: which makes susan strangely grateful that her cancer cells had the right kind of mutation. because the results were so promising, the studies the fda used to approve these drugs were stopped early so researchers are going to need additional time to tell us anything about long-term survival.