4 tips to save money on medications [Video]

NEW ORLEANS — Wayne Messina and Joe LaBella have been best friends for 50 years. They do almost everything together and were born in the same year. They even got the news that they each had prostate cancer just two weeks apart.

He called me up and says uh, ‘By the way, I want to tell you I have prostate cancer.’ and I cried like a baby,” remembers Wayne Messina, 75. 

“That diagnosis is a gut punch when he called me and told me he’s got it,” said Joe LaBella, 74.

They shared treatment stories, even the advice and treatment from Tulane doctors. They are on the same medication. The cost of the medication is $17,000 a month. Their …