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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by TurkishPoptart on Friday February 21, 2020 @05:44PM (#22387728)
Yes, IIRC there was a thread talking about this GoodRX thing. When I was uninsured, it brought the price for a month's supply of generic Singulair from ~$60 to ~$9. Very convenient for me, but where does that money come from? Does GoodRX get paid for that data, that I'm a 30-yo man in x-state who needs x-medicine? Very sketchy.
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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by csnover on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:42PM (#22389470)
The money comes from the money that would normally be kicked back to the pharmacy benefit manager[0] as a “rebate” from the pharmaceutical company. The retail prices are jacked up—at least in part—for the benefit of PBMs to extract money from the system[1]. My understanding is that GoodRX gets the negotiated “discount” price from a PBM like every other insurer and then makes a profit from the kickback.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy_benefit_management

[1] https://armandalegshow.com/episode/why-are-drug-prices-so-ra...

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