The reality of the cost of prescription drugs in the United States is that prices continue to go up and up, insurance covers less and less, and our out-of-pocket cost requires bigger and bigger pockets.
There seems to be no end in sight. We can make all the noise we want, but prices still go up, and up, and up.
As many smart patients know, those very high prices in the United States are far higher than prices for the same drugs ...
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This article popped up in a dozen places over the past week or so. The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Axios, even QVC!
How Chaos at Chain Pharmacies Is Putting Patients at Risk
Reading it will curl your toenails and raise the hair on the back of your neck! You’ll wonder how you have survived your Walgreens or CVS drug prescriptions.
But while I applaud the honesty and real-life approach to the exposé, I am as ...
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During the past 10 years or more, the costs of prescription drugs seem to have taken on an enlarging life of their own. Gone are the days of no co-pay. Today even co-pays seem outrageous, yet pharmaceutical drug companies keep raising their prices and we, the patients, are responsible for their bazillion dollar paychecks, whether or not we can afford the drugs we need.
I’ll confess that I have a totally unbalanced sense of awe and loathing for Big Pharma (the ...
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