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PBMs and insurers want your prescription money

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For many, these coupons represent the difference between filling a prescription and going without lifesaving care, but there is a lot more here than just a co-pay coupon. Health insurers have started effectively stealing co-pay coupons, leaving patients on the hook for far higher expenses. Let’s take a step back for a minute.

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Insurance companies putting profits ahead of patients

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Five of America’s largest health insurers reported more than $11bn in profits in the second quarter – a decline from the same period last year when the Covid-19 pandemic helped drive sky-high profits yet they are having more of a say on patients’ treatments even when HCPs disagree. Then there is prior authorization.

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PhRMA keeps pummeling PBMs, launching fresh attack on power over pharmacy choice

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PhRMA has rounded up its attack ad team once again for another broadside against pharmacy benefit managers, zeroing in this time on the potential for insurers to profit from where prescriptions get | PhRMA has rounded up its attack ad team once again for another broadside against pharmacy benefit managers, zeroing in this time on the potential for (..)

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Our abysmal health care system

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First, the health insurance companies are making a lot of money while burying doctors in paperwork and limiting treatment options. The insurance companies get to dictate medical care and go out of their way to deny medications, surgery, or treatments with no repercussions. Health insurance policies are stressing many physicians out.

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Corporations: “get healthcare costs under control”

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According to data from KFF’s annual survey of employers , between 2010 and 2020, insurance premiums for employer-sponsored family coverage rose by 55 percent; the employer’s contribution went up 61 percent. Meanwhile For Health Insurers. In other words the nation’s health insurers are doing extraordinary well.

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Good Rx? Actually not

World of DTC Marketing

When they say compare prescription drug prices, they mean the cost of a prescription if you aren’t using insurance. Pharmacists have to reverse the billing they have done, enter the information like an insurance card, rebill, and print new paperwork. And advertising? It doesn’t work that way.

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Biden proposes subsidizing drug middlemen for insulin

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Under the bill proposed, Medicare beneficiaries and those insured through private plans would pay no more than $35 for a 30-day insulin prescription, or the lesser of $35 or 25% of the plan’s negotiated price for a 30-day prescription. Even with health insurance, some people pay up to $1,000 a month for insulin.

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