Durbin and Callahan

Sen. Dick Durbin brought the story of SIUC baseball coach Dan Callahan's struggles to pay for his cancer treatment to the Senate floor yesterday. Treatments of the drug Avastin appear to help reduce Callahan's melanoma but at a cost of over $13,000 per dose. Callahan's doctors are wanting to administer a dose of the drug every three weeks. So far, treatment has run over $82,000 and Callahn's insurance company, WellPoint, has said it will no longer foot the bill for additional treatments.