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Ruby the Liberal

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14. They make it up by charging those WITH insurance

Reply to stopbush (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 06:39 PM

Aug 2016

When your deductible is $2500 a year and prescription bennies don't kick in until you meet it, you pay full price. Once its met, you pay a discount (at work ours are 10% and 20% once deductible is met).

Thats how they justify their pricing. Hundreds of people (or their insurance, or their employer) pick up the exhorbitant cost and they justify it by claiming "coupons" and "giveaways" while their executives are pocketing tens of millions in take home pay.

Glad it worked out for you.

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This chart reveals the inhumanity of US drug prices compared to other countries [View all] Photographer Aug 2016 OP

That chart is meaningless. stopbush Aug 2016 #1

You are very lucky and I am glad for you. Photographer Aug 2016 #2

What good fortune? stopbush Aug 2016 #3

You can point towards objective evidence to support this premise, yes? LanternWaste Aug 2016 #5

I had a standard, not-great UHC insurance plan. stopbush Aug 2016 #7

So, you're not saying the drugs aren't overpriced leftstreet Aug 2016 #9

I'm saying that a chart showing the LIST PRICE of drugs in the USA stopbush Aug 2016 #10

Like doctors and hospitals 1939 Aug 2016 #13

Raw capitalism, what ya gonna do? Rex Aug 2016 #23

48 million people is still a big number. Rex Aug 2016 #18

Ha! No one is getting defensive at ths end. stopbush Aug 2016 #20

This message was self-deleted by its author Rex Aug 2016 #22

You should be as you are defending an indefensible paradigm. Photographer Aug 2016 #31

I'm defending nothing. I'm pointing out that the chart presented in the OP stopbush Aug 2016 #32

No, you are only pointing out your opinion. The chart is true. America sucks in this area. Photographer Aug 2016 #33

They make it up by charging those WITH insurance Ruby the Liberal Aug 2016 #14

I take a couple of daily meds. stopbush Aug 2016 #21

It's because the pharma industry needs more regulation Calculating Aug 2016 #4

Nobody in the UK pays these prices VMA131Marine Aug 2016 #6

And neither does anyone in the USA. stopbush Aug 2016 #8

Sure they do... VMA131Marine Aug 2016 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author stopbush Aug 2016 #12

No they dont Kilgore Aug 2016 #30

LOL! Ruby the Liberal Aug 2016 #15

No one said it was free. Straw men don't help your agrument. stopbush Aug 2016 #16

Thanks for this info, P. Pharma is such a bunch of un-American leeches. r,nt. Mc Mike Aug 2016 #17

I am curious, do those other countries practice 'free trade' or 'fair trade'? nt Rex Aug 2016 #19

Well Canada is part of Nafta Egnever Aug 2016 #24

They have universal health care? Rex Aug 2016 #25

Of course Egnever Aug 2016 #26

All of the countries on that list do except the US Egnever Aug 2016 #27

All combined in population maybe half the United States. Rex Aug 2016 #28

Medicare cannot negotiate drug prices, I thought that was the law that was passed MattP Aug 2016 #29