You want me to pay how much?

So, when I was looking through the fun stuff that Dr. Vega gave me (see below) I found a card for financial assistance from the drug company. I called the number on the card and got it activated, the drug company will pay 80% of the copay up to $24,000! YEY! So I call Walgreen's to how much the copay will be and they tell me they need a pre auth before they can tell me how much it is, I said how much is it without insurance...all I heard was $7000 I don't even know what the last 3 numbers of that quote were because I was stopped at the thousand part. The lady then tells me to call my insurance company. The insurance lady was wonderful, she gave me a number for the pharmacy to call and that would get it resolved. So NOW, I call the pharmacy and  a much nicer lady answers the phone. She explained to me that my medicine is on the high priority list and they are already working to get this issue resolved. I explained to her that ideally we would like to start chemo on Wednesday. She gave me her name and told me to call back tomorrow at 11am and she would see what the progress was. At this point I call my sister in law because she doesn't know how to read ;) and I tell her what is going on, she explained that with medications that expensive the doctor just has to prove that that medicine is needed. WTF is wrong with insurance companies!! Of course I need it, dummies!! I swear as much as Chris and I pay for insurance all this shit should be free!! Anyways, I'll let y'all know how that goes....