So why does your prescription cost more than a luxury handbag? Corporate greed. - From Senator Bernie Sanders

[Rhiannon12866]

September 22, 2024

I can identify with this, just got a new prescription (inhaler) from the ENT for my sinus condition since the script I've been using wasn't doing much. However, this new prescription would have cost me almost $700 a month. So I called the ENT and she recommended another - which would have cost only about $20 less, so she said to just stick with the original script which was helping me breathe - but only a little.

When I went to pick up my refill, I was told that the original script had gone from $94 to $178. And they had already filled the second new more expensive prescription that the ENT had called in. So I had a choice. The woman at the pharmacy said to see what she could do. And when I came back, she told me that she'd found a coupon online for the new prescription which would cost me nothing - so I had a choice, the original at $178 a month or the new one which would now cost me nothing - which actually does work better.

I'm lucky that I have managed $94 a month - and that those at the pharmacy made a real effort to help me out. The cost of these prescriptions have to be out of reach of many people.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Pharmaceuticals just like the rest of big health care is a shell game

They make it purposely confusing so we just eventually give up and say okay screw me

[brewens]

2. I'll have to see if I can conjure up this, I think should be called expose, on luxury goods. Some of the expensive

sunglasses and shit are made at the same place as cheaper versions. Same quality but the fancy logo is just simple finishing work. People pay a fortune for just average stuff.

[duncang]

3. I don't get it also.

How is it through my company retirement plan and Medicare I pay more for some prescriptions than using goodrx or a coupon from the company. I do get 3 month refills so to me just doing that should make it cheaper. Buy in bulk right? Have insurance/medicare should be cheaper. But nope.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Good point, the prices I quoted were using the Good Rx card I received from my doctor.