re: F cancer, F insurance companies, and F big pharma!!!

They can’t take all the blame. Pharmacy Benefit Managers like express scripts and CVS Caremark have been lining their pockets for decades. These managers negotiate discounts with the pharm companies and then pocket those discounts and patients in many cases pay full price of meds. In Louisiana until this year, it is against the law for a pharmacist to tell you that the medicine would be cheaper if you did not use your insurance.

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Shoemaker almost paid a lot more for one drug; it cost $613 with her insurance. But instead of using that insurance, Shoemaker logged on to one of those cost-saving prescription apps - in this case, GoodRx - and paid just $272 for the medication.

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And last year she could have saved even more: She used her insurance for a $277 cream, but only later found out she could have paid just $11.72 via an app.

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Lee Zurik Report

I would assume she has pretty good insurance working for the state