From my insurance company:
Those meds were billed at over $1000
We paid $14
No copay.
Sometimes I think insurance and big pharma may be somewhat of a scam.

From my insurance company:
Those meds were billed at over $1000
We paid $14
No copay.
Sometimes I think insurance and big pharma may be somewhat of a scam.

@jack_daniel Sometimes I think Americans are amazing, that their medical system doesn't lead to a revolution

@jack_daniel gasp

@sinabhfuil It goes back to Reagan, and W, the conversion of education into programming. Add in religious programming, plus the majority of boomers who were opposed to civil rights, and here we are. Amazing, and a cautionary tale.

From my insurance company:
Those meds were billed at over $1000
We paid $14
No copay.
Sometimes I think insurance and big pharma may be somewhat of a scam.

From my insurance company:
Those meds were billed at over $1000
We paid $14
No copay.
Sometimes I think insurance and big pharma may be somewhat of a scam.

From my insurance company:
Those meds were billed at over $1000
We paid $14
No copay.
Sometimes I think insurance and big pharma may be somewhat of a scam.

From my insurance company:
Those meds were billed at over $1000
We paid $14
No copay.
Sometimes I think insurance and big pharma may be somewhat of a scam.

@jack_daniel As someone from Europe (and therefore blessed with a more socialist view on healthcare), I ask this earnestly:

Only sometimes?

From my insurance company:
Those meds were billed at over $1000
We paid $14
No copay.
Sometimes I think insurance and big pharma may be somewhat of a scam.

@jack_daniel As a former med billing specialist & health ins analyst: prices are set for cash patients not insurance. Drs & hospitals know they will be paid less than they bill. Some hospitals have a bill ins once and then send all bills to the patient so the patient will pay the full price even if the insurance pays & wait till the end of the year to pay back the patient.

They will pay the full price back ins + write-off amount. Some doctors will give a credit and not tell the patient.

@jack_daniel
My pharmacy benefit manager (i.e. middleman) just happens to also own the largest chain of pharmacies in the region.

And it just so happens that the only pharmacy that insurance will pay to fill a Rx for 90 days is… theirs.

But the local supermarket chain pharmacy fills my Rx for 90 days if I pay out of pocket, and their price is typically lower than my insurance copay was at the captive pharmacy.

From my insurance company:
Those meds were billed at over $1000
We paid $14
No copay.
Sometimes I think insurance and big pharma may be somewhat of a scam.

@jack_daniel And the suppression of the Black Panthers, of course, and the fostering of the idea that the ideal is to be bourgeois

@jack_daniel I absolutely love it when the drug companies announce with false sincerity that oh look we are lowering the price of this medication. That usually comes about 24 hours before your insurance company announces that your deductible is going to go up another thousand dollars a year.

@sinabhfuil The Panthers terrified much of white America because: black. And they terrified those in power for exposing that change was possible. We can't have that, now can we?