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When patents for name brand medicines expire, the price of that medicine drops significantly as generic versions enter the market, but that process can take a while. Watch a new video in STAT's 'Behind the Counter' series:

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A nine week delay in treatment changed this patient's life forever. She asked me to share her story. This patient has Crohn's disease and was doing well on a medication that controlled her disease. Then, because of an insurance-related delay, she lost access to that medication for nine weeks. During that time, she developed a rectovaginal fistula, an opening to form between her intestine and her vagina. She underwent multiple surgeries to try to repair it and they all failed. She now lives with a colostomy. This is why I push back when people describe delays in care as administrative issues. They are patient issues. By the time a medication is approved, an appeal is reviewed, or a policy is changed, the damage may already be done and the patient’s life might be impacted forever. You can fix a process but you cannot always undo the harm. Behind every delay is a person whose life may be permanently changed. We cannot keep treating timely access to care as optional when the consequences are this real.

A nine week delay in treatment changed this patient's life forever. She asked me to share her story. This patient has Crohn's disease and was doing well on a medication that controlled her disease. Then, because of an insurance-related delay, she lost access to that medication for nine weeks. During that time, she developed a rectovaginal fistula, an opening to form between her intestine and her vagina. She underwent multiple surgeries to try to repair it and they all failed. She now lives with a colostomy. This is why I push back when people describe delays in care as administrative issues. They are patient issues. By the time a medication is approved, an appeal is reviewed, or a policy is changed, the damage may already be done and the patient’s life might be impacted forever. You can fix a process but you cannot always undo the harm. Behind every delay is a person whose life may be permanently changed. We cannot keep treating timely access to care as optional when the consequences are this real.

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I said no more rants until I come back from the trenches but I need to stop and make a little Public Service Announcement. I have been working in logistics for exactly one month now and in the last two weeks I have felt overwhelmed with the way soldiers are treated to receive help from others. I am #Canadian, I choose to be here but Ukrainians have no choice but to keep fighting no matter what and the amount of hoops people expect us soldiers to jump through is actually mind blowing. We are not puppets or your entertainment. Donations are not something you should be giving with strings attached, you should be helping Ukraine because you want Ukrainians to survive this genocide. When military personnel take time out of the war to send videos, to sign flags and hand them to you, that should be enough. There are so many reasons we fundraise for ourselves and today we are adding, not having to jump through hoops and put on shows for foreigners. #Support93 #SupportUkraine

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Stop with the fear mongering! TRANS PEOPLE ARE NOT LOSING ACCESS TO HORMONES. How have I been getting my hormones for 32 years without insurance? Its called a prescription from the doctor that you take to your pharmacy and pay with your own money. Yes you MIGHT lose access to insurance, but I also believe that isnt happening. If you are an adult who has gone through the system you are still getting access BUT lets just say you do lose your insurance, well guess what now you just have to get a job and pay yourself! Thats not impossible. The fact that trans guys are fear mongers and telling you to buy off the internet from India and Pakistan is so dangerous for many reasons! Talk about insanity. Why are you all acting so insane and lying about hormones! You have been coddled and brainwashed by your own so called community! Thats what you should be pissed about. ❤️ #transsexual #elder #hormones #access #healthcare #lies #gasligthing #ftm

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Threadguy explains why he thinks Claude should be LIABLE for damaging his apartment “I have these electric blinds, they weren’t working so I asked Claude how to fix it. I did exactly what Claude said, the entire blinds come crashing down, they snap off, there’s copper wires exposed everywhere” “I call an electrician and he’s charging $150 an hour and I’m just thinking to myself, I don’t feel like I should have to pay for something Claude did" "If you get medication from the doctor and you’re allergic to an ingredient and you pass away, there’s a lawsuit and your family is winning every single time” “I legitimately felt like Claude should be paying for this and I can’t help but think we are really close to getting to a point where everyone is automating their life with OpenClaw, telling them to do this exercise, eat this, take this medication. We are not that far away from this at all”

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Dr. Francis Collins, who during Covid was emailing with Fauci about how to quash reporting into Covid originating from research they were funding in Wuhan, laments the "trust deficit" today in the America. "There seems to be no real penalty for saying something that’s demonstrably false. It’s just okay. No it’s not. We have a trust deficit where because people don’t know if they can be sure somebody telling the truth, why should I trust that person so we stopped trusting each other most of the time, and that’s dangerous also for our future"

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🚨🇺🇸 MARK CUBAN EXPOSES PBM SCAM COSTING PATIENTS BILLIONS BEFORE SENATE Mark Cuban just testified before the Senate explaining how Pharmacy Benefit Managers are a bigger monopoly than Amazon, controlling drug access for 270 million Americans while driving prices up, not down: "PBMs auction off access to their formularies to the highest bidders. Drug companies pay rebates and fees so their drugs can be covered. The higher the list price, the more money PBMs make." A $600 drug costs the manufacturer $240 after rebates. Uninsured patients pay $600. Insured patients with deductibles also pay $600. The PBM pockets the difference. Cuban's solution: count cash payments toward deductibles, base out-of-pocket costs on net price, separate formularies from PBMs, and end specialty tiers. The U.S. is the only country using PBMs. That's why we have the world's highest drug prices. Source: CSPAN, Mark Cuban

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Linda McMahon just exposed exactly how rotten the federal student loan system became before Trump’s team started cleaning it up. Dead people, ghost students, bots, fake identities, all somehow getting access to taxpayer-backed loans while normal Americans were forced to pay for the fraud. Think about how insane that is. The government was handing out billions like candy, and only now are we finally hearing that basic real-time identity fraud checks had to be enforced and fixed. This should have been mandatory from day one. No dead person should be getting a student loan. No bot should be draining federal money. No fake student should be stealing from American taxpayers. Trump’s Education Department tightening the system and saving billions is exactly why accountability matters. For years, Washington acted like fraud was just part of the cost of doing business. Now the adults are back in the room, and the scam is getting shut down.

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My wife and I own a pharmacy. Last month we spent days trying to pry one prescription loose from a company that did everything it could to hold onto it. The drug was everolimus. A generic. It treats cancer and protects transplant patients from rejecting their new organ. Not exotic. Not rare. A pill. The patient wanted it filled with us because we're cash-pay and cost-plus. No insurance. No PBM. No secret markups, no games. Our price was $318. That's not cheap by our standards — most of what we fill runs under $20 — but it was honest. Here's what that same prescription looked like on the other side of the counter. In 2023, Medicare was paying about $6,645 for it. That's roughly 21 times our price for the identical medication. Medicare spent around $240 million on everolimus alone that year. If they'd paid our price, they'd have saved roughly $230 million. On one generic drug. So how does an insurance company profit off a drug that expensive? Don't they pay for it? No. You pay for it. In your premiums. Their job isn't to spend less — it's to keep your healthcare dollars circulating inside their own companies. And the tool they use is called spread pricing. Spread pricing works like this: the middleman bills the health plan one price, pays the pharmacy a lower one, and keeps the difference. You never see it. On TRICARE, they pay an independent pharmacy like mine about $311 to fill everolimus. That barely covers our cost of the drug. Meanwhile the plan gets billed thousands. That gap — north of $6,000 on a single fill — is pure margin the middleman pockets. Now here's the part they'd rather you not think about. The pharmacy we were fighting was Accredo. Accredo is owned by Express Scripts. Express Scripts is the pharmacy benefit manager owned by Cigna. Same company, three masks. That nesting-doll structure isn't an accident — it's the whole design. When the pharmacy, the PBM, and the insurer are all one entity, they can shuffle money between their own pockets and call it whatever they want. The confusion is the product. And this isn't a story about one weird drug. It's the business model. The FTC has been digging into exactly this. In its January 2025 report on the three biggest PBMs — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx — staff found those companies marked up specialty generic drugs by hundreds and thousands of percent when dispensing through their own affiliated pharmacies. Just those markups generated more than $7.3 billion above what the drugs actually cost to acquire, from 2017 to 2022. One in five of the specialty generics they studied was marked up over 1,000%. Some cancer generics: over 3,000%. On top of that, the FTC pegged spread pricing on those same drugs at another $1.4 billion. One example straight from the FTC's files: dimethyl fumarate, a multiple sclerosis drug. Costs about $177 to acquire. The PBMs paid their own pharmacies close to $4,000 for a 30-day supply. Same trick. Different drug. And they steer the profitable ones to themselves on purpose. Pharmacies affiliated with the big three took in 68% of specialty dispensing revenue in 2023 — up from 54% in 2016. The prescriptions marked up more than $1,000 disproportionately end up at their own pharmacies, not independents like mine. So when we called to transfer this patient's everolimus to be filled without insurance, it landed like we were asking them to set $6,000 on fire. Of course they stonewalled us. That's why we fired them. No insurance means no invisible $6,000 charge buried in a premium you can't itemize. It means the price you see is the price. Ours was $318. Theirs was thousands. Same pill.

My wife and I own a pharmacy. Last month we spent days trying to pry one prescription loose from a company that did everything it could to hold onto it. The drug was everolimus. A generic. It treats cancer and protects transplant patients from rejecting their new organ. Not exotic. Not rare. A pill. The patient wanted it filled with us because we're cash-pay and cost-plus. No insurance. No PBM. No secret markups, no games. Our price was $318. That's not cheap by our standards — most of what we fill runs under $20 — but it was honest. Here's what that same prescription looked like on the other side of the counter. In 2023, Medicare was paying about $6,645 for it. That's roughly 21 times our price for the identical medication. Medicare spent around $240 million on everolimus alone that year. If they'd paid our price, they'd have saved roughly $230 million. On one generic drug. So how does an insurance company profit off a drug that expensive? Don't they pay for it? No. You pay for it. In your premiums. Their job isn't to spend less — it's to keep your healthcare dollars circulating inside their own companies. And the tool they use is called spread pricing. Spread pricing works like this: the middleman bills the health plan one price, pays the pharmacy a lower one, and keeps the difference. You never see it. On TRICARE, they pay an independent pharmacy like mine about $311 to fill everolimus. That barely covers our cost of the drug. Meanwhile the plan gets billed thousands. That gap — north of $6,000 on a single fill — is pure margin the middleman pockets. Now here's the part they'd rather you not think about. The pharmacy we were fighting was Accredo. Accredo is owned by Express Scripts. Express Scripts is the pharmacy benefit manager owned by Cigna. Same company, three masks. That nesting-doll structure isn't an accident — it's the whole design. When the pharmacy, the PBM, and the insurer are all one entity, they can shuffle money between their own pockets and call it whatever they want. The confusion is the product. And this isn't a story about one weird drug. It's the business model. The FTC has been digging into exactly this. In its January 2025 report on the three biggest PBMs — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx — staff found those companies marked up specialty generic drugs by hundreds and thousands of percent when dispensing through their own affiliated pharmacies. Just those markups generated more than $7.3 billion above what the drugs actually cost to acquire, from 2017 to 2022. One in five of the specialty generics they studied was marked up over 1,000%. Some cancer generics: over 3,000%. On top of that, the FTC pegged spread pricing on those same drugs at another $1.4 billion. One example straight from the FTC's files: dimethyl fumarate, a multiple sclerosis drug. Costs about $177 to acquire. The PBMs paid their own pharmacies close to $4,000 for a 30-day supply. Same trick. Different drug. And they steer the profitable ones to themselves on purpose. Pharmacies affiliated with the big three took in 68% of specialty dispensing revenue in 2023 — up from 54% in 2016. The prescriptions marked up more than $1,000 disproportionately end up at their own pharmacies, not independents like mine. So when we called to transfer this patient's everolimus to be filled without insurance, it landed like we were asking them to set $6,000 on fire. Of course they stonewalled us. That's why we fired them. No insurance means no invisible $6,000 charge buried in a premium you can't itemize. It means the price you see is the price. Ours was $318. Theirs was thousands. Same pill.

Forest Park Pharmacy

58,395 Aufrufe • vor 26 Tagen

🚨: Cloudflare Outage - yet another reason to reject digital ID! Today was a reminder of how fragile our entire digital world really is. This is exactly why we must resist the push toward digital ID, facial recognition systems, cashless society policies and social credit style controls. If a simple configuration error can knock out major platforms for hours, imagine what happens when every part of your life depends on a single digital identity. Imagine when access to travel, banking, healthcare or even social platforms is tied to one system that can fail or be switched off. This is not conspiracy. It is basic common sense. Centralised digital control is dangerous. Outages like today show how quickly everything can collapse and how easily authorities or corporations could restrict your access with one decision. We must fight for decentralisation, privacy, cash options and freedom. The future they are building is not inevitable - we need to say no while we still can!

🚨: Cloudflare Outage - yet another reason to reject digital ID! Today was a reminder of how fragile our entire digital world really is. This is exactly why we must resist the push toward digital ID, facial recognition systems, cashless society policies and social credit style controls. If a simple configuration error can knock out major platforms for hours, imagine what happens when every part of your life depends on a single digital identity. Imagine when access to travel, banking, healthcare or even social platforms is tied to one system that can fail or be switched off. This is not conspiracy. It is basic common sense. Centralised digital control is dangerous. Outages like today show how quickly everything can collapse and how easily authorities or corporations could restrict your access with one decision. We must fight for decentralisation, privacy, cash options and freedom. The future they are building is not inevitable - we need to say no while we still can!

Montgomery Toms

52,757 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

American was at a clinic, he witnessed a patient forced to pay a higher price because they had health insurance “This is why people are frustrated and quite frankly pissed off about insurance. I'm at the urgent care today to get a sports physical for my son to play football this season. And there's a mother checking out from her sick visit with her child and they charge her $200. And she says, wait a minute, I was told it was $150. She said, oh, that's the cash price, but you have insurance and we've got to charge you the insurance price. And the mom said, well, just ring it up, I'll just pay out of pocket with cash. And I said, no, we can't because Blue Cross requires us. If you've got insurance, we've got to through that through Blue Cross. And the mom said, well, that's not fair and I have insurance, I should be getting a better price, right? And she said, no, if we charge you a cash price, Blue Cross will take us out of, out of their network.” “That just seems asinine to me. And that's why people are frustrated with insurance. It doesn't work the way that it should” Make it make sense

American was at a clinic, he witnessed a patient forced to pay a higher price because they had health insurance “This is why people are frustrated and quite frankly pissed off about insurance. I'm at the urgent care today to get a sports physical for my son to play football this season. And there's a mother checking out from her sick visit with her child and they charge her $200. And she says, wait a minute, I was told it was $150. She said, oh, that's the cash price, but you have insurance and we've got to charge you the insurance price. And the mom said, well, just ring it up, I'll just pay out of pocket with cash. And I said, no, we can't because Blue Cross requires us. If you've got insurance, we've got to through that through Blue Cross. And the mom said, well, that's not fair and I have insurance, I should be getting a better price, right? And she said, no, if we charge you a cash price, Blue Cross will take us out of, out of their network.” “That just seems asinine to me. And that's why people are frustrated with insurance. It doesn't work the way that it should” Make it make sense

Wall Street Apes

189,269 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

Every asset you own should be yours to use. Anywhere. On any chain. Without asking permission from a bridge, a custodian, or a wrapper. That's not how Web3 works today. But it's how it should work. And it's why we built Ika. Today, we take a massive leap forward. Mainnet Upgrade: EdDSA Support Here's why this matters: ECDSA is the signature algorithm for Bitcoin, Ethereum, other EVM chains and practically most chains support ECDSA-based account. There are however chains who don't support ECDSA, and only support EdDSA-based accounts such as Solana, Zcash, Cardano, Stellar, Near and others. Together, these two signature schemes cover the vast majority of Web3. Ika launched with ECDSA. Today, we add EdDSA. That means dWallets can now sign transactions natively on practically every major chain in existence. Not through bridges. Not through wrapped tokens. Directly. With Zero-Trust. And because Ika is signature-based, and doesn't require an integration from the supported chains, any chain using these standards is already supported. No custom code. No integrations. No waiting. One network. Native access to all of Web3. The future isn't bridged. It's coordinated. 🦑

Every asset you own should be yours to use. Anywhere. On any chain. Without asking permission from a bridge, a custodian, or a wrapper. That's not how Web3 works today. But it's how it should work. And it's why we built Ika. Today, we take a massive leap forward. Mainnet Upgrade: EdDSA Support Here's why this matters: ECDSA is the signature algorithm for Bitcoin, Ethereum, other EVM chains and practically most chains support ECDSA-based account. There are however chains who don't support ECDSA, and only support EdDSA-based accounts such as Solana, Zcash, Cardano, Stellar, Near and others. Together, these two signature schemes cover the vast majority of Web3. Ika launched with ECDSA. Today, we add EdDSA. That means dWallets can now sign transactions natively on practically every major chain in existence. Not through bridges. Not through wrapped tokens. Directly. With Zero-Trust. And because Ika is signature-based, and doesn't require an integration from the supported chains, any chain using these standards is already supported. No custom code. No integrations. No waiting. One network. Native access to all of Web3. The future isn't bridged. It's coordinated. 🦑

Ika「🦑」

65,124 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

Today was a big day for us. Why CoinList? This is something very important to us and something we have wanted to do since our inception. If you didn’t listen to today’s Twitter space, here’s a quick clip. — The moral of the story is: Always do what’s right, not what’s easy. This ecosystem was built on the back of permissionless investment opportunities. It’s sad to see ICOs demonized because of a few rotten apples. Everyone on the inside likes their ‘special terms’ that no one else has access to - but that individualistic mindset only gets you so far. That is not how you build a lasting movement. And it’s genuinely damaging to our ecosystem. That is why we always have gone out of our way to make sure that every single person who believes in us has the opportunity to grow with us. Should you want to make sure that your top community members have direct access to your project? Of course! That is why Legion is an incredible platform, and why we chose that too - it allows you to make sure your highest signal community members get their fair share. But the little guy should also have access. The one that hasn’t yet made a name for themselves. The introvert with no followers. The folks with even the smallest check sizes. If not, we are just recreating the exact same system that we are fighting against. $TRUST your Intuition Or don’t. The choice is yours. 👁️

Today was a big day for us. Why CoinList? This is something very important to us and something we have wanted to do since our inception. If you didn’t listen to today’s Twitter space, here’s a quick clip. — The moral of the story is: Always do what’s right, not what’s easy. This ecosystem was built on the back of permissionless investment opportunities. It’s sad to see ICOs demonized because of a few rotten apples. Everyone on the inside likes their ‘special terms’ that no one else has access to - but that individualistic mindset only gets you so far. That is not how you build a lasting movement. And it’s genuinely damaging to our ecosystem. That is why we always have gone out of our way to make sure that every single person who believes in us has the opportunity to grow with us. Should you want to make sure that your top community members have direct access to your project? Of course! That is why Legion is an incredible platform, and why we chose that too - it allows you to make sure your highest signal community members get their fair share. But the little guy should also have access. The one that hasn’t yet made a name for themselves. The introvert with no followers. The folks with even the smallest check sizes. If not, we are just recreating the exact same system that we are fighting against. $TRUST your Intuition Or don’t. The choice is yours. 👁️

Intuition 👁️

23,549 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

Keeping up with your friends doesn’t have to be complicated. But that’s how it feels today on other apps when updates from your crew are buried beneath brands, influencers, and videos of strangers dancing. We believe that sharing your life with your friends should be simple and fun. Introducing Capture by amo. It’s the camera you create — made just for friends. Create your camera by choosing from a range of styles, then get on with capturing daily life how you really see it. No time to check if you look good (you look great, btw). No followers to count. And no algorithms to keep you in the app. Choose to capture in 0.5, superzoom, or frontback mode, then tilt to unveil captures in a feed that’s just for friends. Once there’s nothing new to view, Capture shuts down so that you can get off your phone. On amo, your profile, friendships, feed, and settings are shared across the apps. Trying a new amo app takes no time at all as your info (and your friends!) are already waiting for you.

amo

146,401 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

“I can’t Breathe”….Previously that phrase caused riots and global outrage. An entire bullshit movement #BLM was born to fleece money from everyone. Yet this time around total silence….what has happened to Henry Nowak is an absolutely disgusting disgrace. Handcuffed and left to choke on his own blood because his murderer has accused him of racism. The establishment and authorities fear of the dreaded R word didn’t just lead to Henry’s death but also condemned thousands of girls in this country to be raped, abused, pimped and in some cases killed. Let me be frank, your skin colour, your nationality, your ethnicity and your belief in ANY flavour of sky fairy should mean NOTHING. No special treatment, no concessions, no gaps in the law, no leniency. I couldn’t give a shit what or who you believe in, if you want special treatment for your identity or beliefs piss off to somewhere that is allowed because we do NOT want it or you in Britain.

“I can’t Breathe”….Previously that phrase caused riots and global outrage. An entire bullshit movement #BLM was born to fleece money from everyone. Yet this time around total silence….what has happened to Henry Nowak is an absolutely disgusting disgrace. Handcuffed and left to choke on his own blood because his murderer has accused him of racism. The establishment and authorities fear of the dreaded R word didn’t just lead to Henry’s death but also condemned thousands of girls in this country to be raped, abused, pimped and in some cases killed. Let me be frank, your skin colour, your nationality, your ethnicity and your belief in ANY flavour of sky fairy should mean NOTHING. No special treatment, no concessions, no gaps in the law, no leniency. I couldn’t give a shit what or who you believe in, if you want special treatment for your identity or beliefs piss off to somewhere that is allowed because we do NOT want it or you in Britain.

John Hannam

15,867 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Casting choices like in The Odyssey have a much deeper meaning “I mean, seriously, are we really thinking that the woman on the right is such a beautiful woman whose face launched 1,000 ships? This is what communists do. They tell you not to believe your eyes, the things that you see. Only believe the dogma of the party, or else you'll be excommunicated and destroyed. And that's what they do. They call you a hateful person for saying, Oh, you don't think that she's beautiful? You're racist. You're racist. You just hate black people. It's like, no, I just…. the person who's supposed to be cast for the most beautiful woman should be beautiful” Look, we all have 2 eyeballs and we all shouldn’t be afraid to say what we really think and feel It’s very obvious this woman may be beautiful to some, but she’s not the right choice for a woman who is supposed to be so outlandishly beautiful that wars were started over here We also MUST stop casting white characters as black people. This has gone too far and we’ve all had enough

Casting choices like in The Odyssey have a much deeper meaning “I mean, seriously, are we really thinking that the woman on the right is such a beautiful woman whose face launched 1,000 ships? This is what communists do. They tell you not to believe your eyes, the things that you see. Only believe the dogma of the party, or else you'll be excommunicated and destroyed. And that's what they do. They call you a hateful person for saying, Oh, you don't think that she's beautiful? You're racist. You're racist. You just hate black people. It's like, no, I just…. the person who's supposed to be cast for the most beautiful woman should be beautiful” Look, we all have 2 eyeballs and we all shouldn’t be afraid to say what we really think and feel It’s very obvious this woman may be beautiful to some, but she’s not the right choice for a woman who is supposed to be so outlandishly beautiful that wars were started over here We also MUST stop casting white characters as black people. This has gone too far and we’ve all had enough

Wall Street Apes

39,765 Aufrufe • vor 5 Tagen