Hey old farts..how many over 50 yrs?

BarnBuster

Virtually Unknown Member
Also worth reading up on, "gag" orders that pharmacists have to adhere to.

"Currently, pharmacy staffers are not allowed to tell customers about cheaper alternatives to the medication they are buying because of contracts with pharmacy benefit managers and insurers.

In virtually every pharmacy in America, buried deep in the fine print is a powerful, profitable, and widely used tactic known as a “gag clause.”

“The clauses that we’re speaking about are really non-disclosure clauses, or as we call them gag clauses, which prevents the pharmacist from disclosing to a patient when the cash price for a medicine may be less than the copay on their insurance,” said Jon Roth, CEO of the
California Pharmacists"

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/could-your-health-insurance-be-costing-you-money-pharmacy-n811171
http://www.ncsl.org/Portals/1/Documents/Health/Pharmacist_Gag_clauses-2018_14523.pdf
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/health-care/what-your-pharmacist-cant-tell-you/
 

too larry

Well-Known Member
Also worth reading up on, "gag" orders that pharmacists have to adhere to.

"Currently, pharmacy staffers are not allowed to tell customers about cheaper alternatives to the medication they are buying because of contracts with pharmacy benefit managers and insurers.

In virtually every pharmacy in America, buried deep in the fine print is a powerful, profitable, and widely used tactic known as a “gag clause.”

“The clauses that we’re speaking about are really non-disclosure clauses, or as we call them gag clauses, which prevents the pharmacist from disclosing to a patient when the cash price for a medicine may be less than the copay on their insurance,” said Jon Roth, CEO of the
California Pharmacists"

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/could-your-health-insurance-be-costing-you-money-pharmacy-n811171
http://www.ncsl.org/Portals/1/Documents/Health/Pharmacist_Gag_clauses-2018_14523.pdf
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/health-care/what-your-pharmacist-cant-tell-you/
I heard about this on NPR a couple of months ago.
 

ttystikk

Well-Known Member
Also worth reading up on, "gag" orders that pharmacists have to adhere to.

"Currently, pharmacy staffers are not allowed to tell customers about cheaper alternatives to the medication they are buying because of contracts with pharmacy benefit managers and insurers.

In virtually every pharmacy in America, buried deep in the fine print is a powerful, profitable, and widely used tactic known as a “gag clause.”

“The clauses that we’re speaking about are really non-disclosure clauses, or as we call them gag clauses, which prevents the pharmacist from disclosing to a patient when the cash price for a medicine may be less than the copay on their insurance,” said Jon Roth, CEO of the
California Pharmacists"

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/could-your-health-insurance-be-costing-you-money-pharmacy-n811171
http://www.ncsl.org/Portals/1/Documents/Health/Pharmacist_Gag_clauses-2018_14523.pdf
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/health-care/what-your-pharmacist-cant-tell-you/
Jesus.

Yet another way that Big Pharma fucks over poor people who need medications.

Is this a great country or what? o_O
 
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