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In the U.S., a consumer will go into a drug store, in this case Walgreens, after their doctor prescribes medication, and then the consumer will make a copayment. A Walgreens pharmacist then dispenses it. After doing so, Walgreens gets a set reimbursement from that consumer’s insurance company for that medication. How much does it get? Well, those insurance company’s contract with what’s called pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) to manage negotiations with pharmacies. A PBM sets up a network for insurance companies, manages drug prices, and handles all the payment logistics between patients and pharmacies. PBMs negotiate with pharmacies, and set up a pricing agreement on which drugs are covered and how much those pharmacies get reimbursed in return for allowing those pharmacies to serve its customers.
Reads like parody.
It’s the beautiful efficiency of the market!
Anyone else getting a pop up issue when they click that link?
Yes, it was quite brutal. Hope no one else has to deal with that just to read the article.
it appears
substackcdn.comis the offending domain, uBlock filters the pop up for me.That’s just how substack work. If you go to a substack it gives a pop up to try and get you to subscribe to the substack.
Well I don’t know what it was supposed to do, as soon as the pop up came up my browser would crash, I had to “stop” the page from loading before it came up to read the article.
never had that happen to me, apologies. But most content from this sub is from substack so you either get used to it or don’t.
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i’m not surprised. thanks, capitalism.
