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This is a big one 🚨 US Pharmacist found another “Massive way for DOGE and Elon Musk to cut” Medicare costs - Medication is called Abiraterone, Medicare pays $3,400 for each prescription - At a pharmacy that doesn’t take insurance it ONLY COST $96. (Medicare mark up 3441%) -...

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The US government sent $2.7 TRILLION in Medicare & Medicaid money overseas to people who were NOT eligible to receive it. That’s 8% of our national debt. Medicare isn't going broke. The money is being stolen.

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𝐀 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 ‘𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒐’ Americans of all political affiliation suddenly woke up realize they agree that their healthcare system is inherently cruel and produces unnecessary misery. ★ NEW ARTICLE ⬇️

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Breaking: Big Pharma's new math! $96 pill + Medicare magic = $3,400 DOGE Department's next mission: Teaching these "benefits managers" that 3441% markup isn't a typo. Express Scripts making Express Profits while taxpayers get the Express Shaft! Trump was right about Big Pharma all along. Time for DOGE to put these middlemen in the doghouse.

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If you know any Medicaid and Medicare fraud and want to report it, or has suggestions, send the info directly to via messages on the official 👉 @DOGE_HHS account. They are using AI to filter them. Together, we can make a difference! 🇺🇸

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Wow, that’s insane. There isn’t a single thing about government that is efficient.

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Medicare’s overpaying $3,400 for a $96 drug, a 3,400% markup, wasting $1.458 billion yearly on Abiraterone alone. Pharmacy benefit managers, who own pharmacies, set these prices. Trump and Musk call it out. Why do we let middlemen rob us blind?

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Middlemen set the price… and own the pharmacies. What a coincidence!

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Wow. This is proof the system’s rigged: Medicare’s getting fleeced by middlemen who are laughing all the way to the bank. Would love to see Elon and DOGE dismantle this.

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I don't even know what to say about this. Big Pharma and our Government entities are nothing short of criminal enterprises. Stunning information.

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What he’s saying is great, but getting Americans off of pharmaceuticals would be better.

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$1.458 billion wasted on ONE drug—and they call this “healthcare”? Medicare isn’t broken—it’s rigged. Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) like Express Scripts, Optum, and CVS Caremark are setting the prices, controlling the supply, and cashing in on both ends. They tell Medicare what to pay, then own the pharmacies that rake in the profit. This isn’t just inefficiency—it’s a systematic looting of taxpayers.😡 If slashing drug prices is this simple, why haven’t politicians done it? Maybe because the ones writing the laws are bought off by the same middlemen robbing us blind. 💰🔥

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Another big one 🚨 Pharmacist says “Since Elon Musk and DOGE are looking at Medicare for easy cuts: - The medication is Dimethyl fumarate - Medicare pays $3,800 per prescription - Cost without insurance ONLY $65 (That’s a 5,746% MARKUP) - Medicare paid for the prescription 155,000 times. In 2022. On average, they paid $3,800 each - Which means that they spent $590 million on just one drug in just one year - That prescription only costs $65. If all 155,000 prescriptions were filled at that price, it would've cost $10 million total So Medicare overpaid by $580 million on just that one drug in only one year” A 57x markup to US taxpayers for every prescription filled. It’s unfathomable.
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Another big one 🚨 Pharmacist says “Since Elon Musk and DOGE are looking at Medicare for easy cuts: - The medication is Dimethyl fumarate - Medicare pays $3,800 per prescription - Cost without insurance ONLY $65 (That’s a 5,746% MARKUP) - Medicare paid for the prescription 155,000 times. In 2022. On average, they paid $3,800 each - Which means that they spent $590 million on just one drug in just one year - That prescription only costs $65. If all 155,000 prescriptions were filled at that price, it would've cost $10 million total So Medicare overpaid by $580 million on just that one drug in only one year” A 57x markup to US taxpayers for every prescription filled. It’s unfathomable.

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WOW 🚨 To Elon Musk and the DOGE team looking at Medicare: Pharmacist says - This medication is Pirfenidone - Medicare filled it 85,000 times in 2022 at an average cost of $8,000 per prescription - Normal cost without insurance ONLY $200 TO FILL - They spent $680 million on that one drug in just one year “However, at my pharmacy, which is a cost plus pharmacy, meaning we don't take insurance, that same prescription would only cost $200” “If we filled all 85,000 prescriptions, it would cost $17 million total. That means Medicare is overpaying by $663 million every year.” Good find TheRedPilledGirl
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WOW 🚨 To Elon Musk and the DOGE team looking at Medicare: Pharmacist says - This medication is Pirfenidone - Medicare filled it 85,000 times in 2022 at an average cost of $8,000 per prescription - Normal cost without insurance ONLY $200 TO FILL - They spent $680 million on that one drug in just one year “However, at my pharmacy, which is a cost plus pharmacy, meaning we don't take insurance, that same prescription would only cost $200” “If we filled all 85,000 prescriptions, it would cost $17 million total. That means Medicare is overpaying by $663 million every year.” Good find TheRedPilledGirl

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🚨 To Elon Musk and the DOGE team looking at Medicare: Pharmacist says - Cancer Medicine Imatinib costs them $7 to buy. They add $10, so you're out the door for $17 - When Medicare pays for this drug, IT COSTS THEM $2,400 - This drug was filled 250,000 times in 1 year costing Medicare $600 million “If every one of those scripts was filled at our pharmacy instead of through Medicare, it would've cost $4 million. That means that we are $596 million cheaper than the insurance. That's crazy.” “So why are they paying this much for that medication? Well, insurance companies pay a middleman, the pharmacy benefits manager, and that person decides how much that medication's gonna cost” - 3 Pharmacy Benefits Managers control over 90% of all prescription pricing in America - Pharmaceutical companies bought all 3 Pharmacy Benefits Managers They set their own pricing, Medicare pays ASTRONOMICAL prices and taxpayers pick up the bill. This is a racket.
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🚨 To Elon Musk and the DOGE team looking at Medicare: Pharmacist says - Cancer Medicine Imatinib costs them $7 to buy. They add $10, so you're out the door for $17 - When Medicare pays for this drug, IT COSTS THEM $2,400 - This drug was filled 250,000 times in 1 year costing Medicare $600 million “If every one of those scripts was filled at our pharmacy instead of through Medicare, it would've cost $4 million. That means that we are $596 million cheaper than the insurance. That's crazy.” “So why are they paying this much for that medication? Well, insurance companies pay a middleman, the pharmacy benefits manager, and that person decides how much that medication's gonna cost” - 3 Pharmacy Benefits Managers control over 90% of all prescription pricing in America - Pharmaceutical companies bought all 3 Pharmacy Benefits Managers They set their own pricing, Medicare pays ASTRONOMICAL prices and taxpayers pick up the bill. This is a racket.

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🚨 US Pharmacist has another message for Elon Musk and DOGE for saving Medicare money “DOGE $1.4 billion wasted on 1 drug” - Drug name Aripiprazole, Medicare is OVERPAYING BY 1633% PER PRESCRIPTION - Aripiprazole was dispensed 7.2 million times in 2022 at an average of $208 each - That makes the total that Medicare spent $1.5 billion in one year on only 1 drug - At a pharmacy that doesn’t take insurance, “That medication costs 12 bucks” - If we filled all 7.2 million of those, the total cost would be $86 million. That means that of the $1.5 billion that they spent more than $1.4 billion of that was wasted The healthcare industry is a racket
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🚨 US Pharmacist has another message for Elon Musk and DOGE for saving Medicare money “DOGE $1.4 billion wasted on 1 drug” - Drug name Aripiprazole, Medicare is OVERPAYING BY 1633% PER PRESCRIPTION - Aripiprazole was dispensed 7.2 million times in 2022 at an average of $208 each - That makes the total that Medicare spent $1.5 billion in one year on only 1 drug - At a pharmacy that doesn’t take insurance, “That medication costs 12 bucks” - If we filled all 7.2 million of those, the total cost would be $86 million. That means that of the $1.5 billion that they spent more than $1.4 billion of that was wasted The healthcare industry is a racket

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Pharmaceutical companies marking up a drug 3,000% to Medicare. Meaning because they know taxpayers are paying for it, they’re charging 30x THE PRICE - Drug name Cialis - Medicare paying $481 per prescription - Cost without insurance $14 - Medicare filled this prescription 492,000 times in 2022 costing taxpayers $237 million dollars “Medicare is being overcharged by $230 million every year for only one drug.” “This happens because Medicare uses a pharmacy benefits manager to handle all things pharmacy for them. They decide what's covered, how much your copay will be, how much it'll cost the government, and how much they'll pay the pharmacy. With all that power, they've decided that we should pay a 3000% markup. What a great deal.”
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Pharmaceutical companies marking up a drug 3,000% to Medicare. Meaning because they know taxpayers are paying for it, they’re charging 30x THE PRICE - Drug name Cialis - Medicare paying $481 per prescription - Cost without insurance $14 - Medicare filled this prescription 492,000 times in 2022 costing taxpayers $237 million dollars “Medicare is being overcharged by $230 million every year for only one drug.” “This happens because Medicare uses a pharmacy benefits manager to handle all things pharmacy for them. They decide what's covered, how much your copay will be, how much it'll cost the government, and how much they'll pay the pharmacy. With all that power, they've decided that we should pay a 3000% markup. What a great deal.”

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Pharmacy Benefits Managers are SKYROCKETING the price of prescriptions to Medicare because taxpayers are paying for it. This is a racket - Medication Chlorpromazine cost to Medicare is $344 per prescription - Normal price ONLY $17 - Medicare PAYS 20x THE PRICE - Medicare paid for this prescription 500,000 times and spent $170 million in 2022 - Of the $170 million that Medicare spent 165 million of that was wasted overpaying “The companies they hire to manage their pharmacy costs are so terrible at their job that 95% of the money they spent is wasted. If you're wondering how they could mismanage it this badly, it's because they get paid more. If the drugs cost more and worse, they own the pharmacies that most of these are filled at. That means that the ridiculous 95% waste goes straight into the pockets of the company tasked with lowering the costs.” This is a racket
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Pharmacy Benefits Managers are SKYROCKETING the price of prescriptions to Medicare because taxpayers are paying for it. This is a racket - Medication Chlorpromazine cost to Medicare is $344 per prescription - Normal price ONLY $17 - Medicare PAYS 20x THE PRICE - Medicare paid for this prescription 500,000 times and spent $170 million in 2022 - Of the $170 million that Medicare spent 165 million of that was wasted overpaying “The companies they hire to manage their pharmacy costs are so terrible at their job that 95% of the money they spent is wasted. If you're wondering how they could mismanage it this badly, it's because they get paid more. If the drugs cost more and worse, they own the pharmacies that most of these are filled at. That means that the ridiculous 95% waste goes straight into the pockets of the company tasked with lowering the costs.” This is a racket

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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.
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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.

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Dear all Republicans who suddenly claim that Trump's Prescription Drug Price Controls are no longer "socialism." You are hypocrites. Look at all the things you said when Democrats tried to do this. - Republican Senator Mitch McConnell on Biden's Drug Price Negotiations, called the idea "Prescription drug socialism." - Republican Rep. Morgan Griffith on Biden's Medicare Drug Price plan: “However the scheme is written is unconstitutional… It is a Godfather, mafia style negotiation where Bureaucrats at CMS make companies an offer they can not refuse.” - House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy on H.R. 3 which limited how much Medicare would pay for drugs: “the Democrats’ socialist prescription drug plan gives the government full control over prices.” - Rep. Tom McClintock on the same bill: “This bill is nothing but classic price controls … shortages always follow.” - Conservative American Action Network ad buy: It’s a “socialist prescription drug bill that will inch us closer to government-run medicine.” - Republican Senator Mike Crapo on Biden’s plan to allow Medicare to negotiate prices: “These drug price controls would hand a competitive edge to our global rivals, including the Chinese Communist Party.” - Republican Rep Devin Nunes called the government telling companies how much they can charge for drugs “Socialist policies”. - Republican Rep. Buddy Carter on Biden’s Medicare Drug Negotiation: “This will destroy R&D in our country.” - Just last year, House Republicans released an “ideal budget plan” that called for the banning of Medicare being able to negotiate drug prices..
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Dear all Republicans who suddenly claim that Trump's Prescription Drug Price Controls are no longer "socialism." You are hypocrites. Look at all the things you said when Democrats tried to do this. - Republican Senator Mitch McConnell on Biden's Drug Price Negotiations, called the idea "Prescription drug socialism." - Republican Rep. Morgan Griffith on Biden's Medicare Drug Price plan: “However the scheme is written is unconstitutional… It is a Godfather, mafia style negotiation where Bureaucrats at CMS make companies an offer they can not refuse.” - House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy on H.R. 3 which limited how much Medicare would pay for drugs: “the Democrats’ socialist prescription drug plan gives the government full control over prices.” - Rep. Tom McClintock on the same bill: “This bill is nothing but classic price controls … shortages always follow.” - Conservative American Action Network ad buy: It’s a “socialist prescription drug bill that will inch us closer to government-run medicine.” - Republican Senator Mike Crapo on Biden’s plan to allow Medicare to negotiate prices: “These drug price controls would hand a competitive edge to our global rivals, including the Chinese Communist Party.” - Republican Rep Devin Nunes called the government telling companies how much they can charge for drugs “Socialist policies”. - Republican Rep. Buddy Carter on Biden’s Medicare Drug Negotiation: “This will destroy R&D in our country.” - Just last year, House Republicans released an “ideal budget plan” that called for the banning of Medicare being able to negotiate drug prices..

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Good news for Prime members on Medicare - today, we’re making RxPass avail to them. This means that for just $5 a month, any of the 50M+ Medicare beneficiaries who are Prime members can get unlimited access to the 60 most-common medications and have them delivered right to their home with fast, free shipping. This could save people (many on a fixed income) about $70-$120 per year if they take just one medication, and if all Medicare beneficiaries transitioned their eligible medications to RxPass, Medicare spending could be reduced by nearly $2 billion. Just the beginning of what we have planned for Amazon Pharmacy!
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Good news for Prime members on Medicare - today, we’re making RxPass avail to them. This means that for just $5 a month, any of the 50M+ Medicare beneficiaries who are Prime members can get unlimited access to the 60 most-common medications and have them delivered right to their home with fast, free shipping. This could save people (many on a fixed income) about $70-$120 per year if they take just one medication, and if all Medicare beneficiaries transitioned their eligible medications to RxPass, Medicare spending could be reduced by nearly $2 billion. Just the beginning of what we have planned for Amazon Pharmacy!

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Tennessee just did what Congress can't. They passed a law to break up the health insurance giants. Specifically, they made it illegal for pharmacy benefit managers — the companies in charge of pharmacy insurance — and pharmacies to be owned by the same company. That makes perfect sense. For example: CVS Caremark is the PBM, and CVS is the pharmacy. So if you have Aetna insurance, you have CVS Caremark as your PBM, and they're going to do everything they can to make sure you use CVS as your pharmacy. Aetna, Caremark, CVS — all the same company. That causes all kinds of incredibly obvious problems that this law hopes to fix. If your insurance company is in charge of approving your medication, deciding how much to pay for it, AND deciding who gets that money — while also being the pharmacy that gets paid at the end — guess what happens to prices? They go up. Governor Lee signed the law last week. CVS immediately filed a federal lawsuit because they said it will force them to close all 136 stores they have in Tennessee. Let that sink in. I'm not sure most people realize what that says about CVS and health insurance in general. They had to choose between owning the middleman (the PBM) or the healthcare provider (the pharmacy). Without hesitation, they chose the middleman. The biggest pharmacy chain in the country — with a store on every corner — would drop all 136 of their Tennessee locations in a second if it means keeping their middleman business. It is more profitable for them to be a health insurance middleman getting between you and your healthcare than it is to actually provide the healthcare. That is the problem with healthcare in America. We have made the middleman so powerful that they've taken complete control of the entire system. Three PBMs — Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx — handle around 80% of all prescriptions in this country. How on earth can we expect healthcare to work well and remain affordable if that's where the money is? We all auto-pay our insurance straight out of our paycheck before we even see the money. And not surprisingly, they're keeping a ton of it. That's why we fired them. And they can't file a lawsuit to stop us. That lets us offer fair, transparent prices. No PBMs. No insurance games. No hidden markups. You see the cost, you pay the cost.
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Tennessee just did what Congress can't. They passed a law to break up the health insurance giants. Specifically, they made it illegal for pharmacy benefit managers — the companies in charge of pharmacy insurance — and pharmacies to be owned by the same company. That makes perfect sense. For example: CVS Caremark is the PBM, and CVS is the pharmacy. So if you have Aetna insurance, you have CVS Caremark as your PBM, and they're going to do everything they can to make sure you use CVS as your pharmacy. Aetna, Caremark, CVS — all the same company. That causes all kinds of incredibly obvious problems that this law hopes to fix. If your insurance company is in charge of approving your medication, deciding how much to pay for it, AND deciding who gets that money — while also being the pharmacy that gets paid at the end — guess what happens to prices? They go up. Governor Lee signed the law last week. CVS immediately filed a federal lawsuit because they said it will force them to close all 136 stores they have in Tennessee. Let that sink in. I'm not sure most people realize what that says about CVS and health insurance in general. They had to choose between owning the middleman (the PBM) or the healthcare provider (the pharmacy). Without hesitation, they chose the middleman. The biggest pharmacy chain in the country — with a store on every corner — would drop all 136 of their Tennessee locations in a second if it means keeping their middleman business. It is more profitable for them to be a health insurance middleman getting between you and your healthcare than it is to actually provide the healthcare. That is the problem with healthcare in America. We have made the middleman so powerful that they've taken complete control of the entire system. Three PBMs — Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx — handle around 80% of all prescriptions in this country. How on earth can we expect healthcare to work well and remain affordable if that's where the money is? We all auto-pay our insurance straight out of our paycheck before we even see the money. And not surprisingly, they're keeping a ton of it. That's why we fired them. And they can't file a lawsuit to stop us. That lets us offer fair, transparent prices. No PBMs. No insurance games. No hidden markups. You see the cost, you pay the cost.

Forest Park Pharmacy

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WOAH 🚨 Pay attention to this American pharmacist exposing that some cheap, very effective drugs, HAVE BEEN BANNED form being prescribed because they’re too cheap So instead of the cheap option, drugs that cost $1,000+ are allowed for certain treatments (INSANE) “The most insane examples of why drugs cost so much is a drug called Brenzavvy. You almost certainly haven't heard of it, but you've probably heard of similar drugs like Jardiance or Farxiga. The reason you haven't heard of Brenzavvy, though, is because no insurance companies will cover it. Most doctors won't prescribe it, and most wholesalers won't even carry it. When I tell you why our entire healthcare industry is turning its back on this proven drug in one of the most critical classes in existence, you are going to be furious. They are shunning Brenzavvy because it's too cheap. I'm not being hyperbolic or sensational. I mean it literally. At my pharmacy, Brenzavvy costs $60 bucks. When they took that price to the pharmacy benefits managers, or PBMs, that's the people in charge of deciding what's covered on your insurance, they all said no, because Brenzavvy can't do a rebate at a price that low. Farxiga and Jardiance, the other Drugs in the SLGT 2 class with Brenzavvy, cost insurance payers $1000 bucks each prescription up front. Then they get a big, probably like 40% rebate later. So that's a $400 rebate, and that is a huge selling point for the PBMs to prove how important they are. The PBMs get a piece of that rebate, and they get a percentage of the final price. An HHS report from last year said that the PBMs get 23% on average for for brand meds. After the rebate, Farxiga and Jardiance still cost $600. 23% of that is $138 for the middleman. Those drugs get dispensed 8 million times a year, which means the total they make in a year off of those two drugs is $1.1 billion. They don't make the drug, they don't prescribe it, they don't dispense it, they don't sell it. They only have to do one thing to make that money. Keep Brenzavvy off their list. If they let in a drug that costs 1/10 of the price and doesn't pay rebate, they literally lose a billion dollars a year. To me, that's the clearest example of why we will never get affordable health care in America. As long as we have PBMs involved, they can't afford to save you money.“ So while this might not be an outright ban, meaning illegal to create, for all purposes it is a ban. Because if the insurance companies won’t cover it, their doctors won’t prescribe it and nearly all wholesalers won’t carry it, that means the insurances companies and PBMs are effectively banning medication in America so they can make maximum profits. Billions a year on a single Medicine, when there are much cheaper options available for the customer This is organized crime. This is racketeering
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WOAH 🚨 Pay attention to this American pharmacist exposing that some cheap, very effective drugs, HAVE BEEN BANNED form being prescribed because they’re too cheap So instead of the cheap option, drugs that cost $1,000+ are allowed for certain treatments (INSANE) “The most insane examples of why drugs cost so much is a drug called Brenzavvy. You almost certainly haven't heard of it, but you've probably heard of similar drugs like Jardiance or Farxiga. The reason you haven't heard of Brenzavvy, though, is because no insurance companies will cover it. Most doctors won't prescribe it, and most wholesalers won't even carry it. When I tell you why our entire healthcare industry is turning its back on this proven drug in one of the most critical classes in existence, you are going to be furious. They are shunning Brenzavvy because it's too cheap. I'm not being hyperbolic or sensational. I mean it literally. At my pharmacy, Brenzavvy costs $60 bucks. When they took that price to the pharmacy benefits managers, or PBMs, that's the people in charge of deciding what's covered on your insurance, they all said no, because Brenzavvy can't do a rebate at a price that low. Farxiga and Jardiance, the other Drugs in the SLGT 2 class with Brenzavvy, cost insurance payers $1000 bucks each prescription up front. Then they get a big, probably like 40% rebate later. So that's a $400 rebate, and that is a huge selling point for the PBMs to prove how important they are. The PBMs get a piece of that rebate, and they get a percentage of the final price. An HHS report from last year said that the PBMs get 23% on average for for brand meds. After the rebate, Farxiga and Jardiance still cost $600. 23% of that is $138 for the middleman. Those drugs get dispensed 8 million times a year, which means the total they make in a year off of those two drugs is $1.1 billion. They don't make the drug, they don't prescribe it, they don't dispense it, they don't sell it. They only have to do one thing to make that money. Keep Brenzavvy off their list. If they let in a drug that costs 1/10 of the price and doesn't pay rebate, they literally lose a billion dollars a year. To me, that's the clearest example of why we will never get affordable health care in America. As long as we have PBMs involved, they can't afford to save you money.“ So while this might not be an outright ban, meaning illegal to create, for all purposes it is a ban. Because if the insurance companies won’t cover it, their doctors won’t prescribe it and nearly all wholesalers won’t carry it, that means the insurances companies and PBMs are effectively banning medication in America so they can make maximum profits. Billions a year on a single Medicine, when there are much cheaper options available for the customer This is organized crime. This is racketeering

Wall Street Apes

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A pharmacy in Hancock, Maryland just closed its doors after 21 years. Their reason? "These PBMs are killing us." Let me show you exactly how that happens — because it's not what most people think. A pharmacist posted an audit on a prescription he filled back in December. Here's how these audits work: if the PBM finds *any* mistake, they don't dock you a little. They claw back the *entire* reimbursement. In this case, they claimed the doctor's address was missing from the prescription. An administrative detail. A paperwork technicality. So they took back $1,343. Here's the brutal part. The drug itself cost the pharmacy $1,337. The pharmacist had already bought it. Already filled it. The patient already walked out the door with it. The drug is gone. The script is filled. And the insurance middleman reaches back in time and reclaims virtually the entire amount — over a missing address. The upside on that prescription was $6. The downside was $1,337. That is the actual math of running a pharmacy that takes insurance. You risk thousands to earn pocket change, and a clerical nitpick months later can wipe out the entire transaction. Multiply that across a whole store and you understand why the lights go off. Meanwhile, UnitedHealth made $90 billion. Nobody — not one patient — wants their insurance company behaving like this. But I only know of one way to stop them. Fire the middleman. That's what we did. No PBMs. No insurance games. No surprise clawbacks months later. Just transparent cash pricing you can see before you ever walk in.
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A pharmacy in Hancock, Maryland just closed its doors after 21 years. Their reason? "These PBMs are killing us." Let me show you exactly how that happens — because it's not what most people think. A pharmacist posted an audit on a prescription he filled back in December. Here's how these audits work: if the PBM finds *any* mistake, they don't dock you a little. They claw back the *entire* reimbursement. In this case, they claimed the doctor's address was missing from the prescription. An administrative detail. A paperwork technicality. So they took back $1,343. Here's the brutal part. The drug itself cost the pharmacy $1,337. The pharmacist had already bought it. Already filled it. The patient already walked out the door with it. The drug is gone. The script is filled. And the insurance middleman reaches back in time and reclaims virtually the entire amount — over a missing address. The upside on that prescription was $6. The downside was $1,337. That is the actual math of running a pharmacy that takes insurance. You risk thousands to earn pocket change, and a clerical nitpick months later can wipe out the entire transaction. Multiply that across a whole store and you understand why the lights go off. Meanwhile, UnitedHealth made $90 billion. Nobody — not one patient — wants their insurance company behaving like this. But I only know of one way to stop them. Fire the middleman. That's what we did. No PBMs. No insurance games. No surprise clawbacks months later. Just transparent cash pricing you can see before you ever walk in.

Forest Park Pharmacy

10,310 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

Mockler on Cost of Iran War: So in New York, they did free school lunches for $300 million a year, put that against the $50 billion, which is a conservative estimate for this war. We could have funded this across the country. How about in Connecticut? They have paid family leave. It was $450 million a year. And it is $5 million to start up. Put that against the $50 billion. It is a no brainer. What about one more in New Mexico. It costs $1.5 billion for free college. We could do that 20 times over with the $50 billion that we've spent.
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Mockler on Cost of Iran War: So in New York, they did free school lunches for $300 million a year, put that against the $50 billion, which is a conservative estimate for this war. We could have funded this across the country. How about in Connecticut? They have paid family leave. It was $450 million a year. And it is $5 million to start up. Put that against the $50 billion. It is a no brainer. What about one more in New Mexico. It costs $1.5 billion for free college. We could do that 20 times over with the $50 billion that we've spent.

Acyn

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House Ways and Means Committee Hearing Pharmacy Benefits Manager is questioned on why they’re charging $6,600 per month for a drug that only cost $55 Let me just repeat that. PBMs which are supposed to save us money are negotiating prices 12,000% higher than cost so the insurance companies that owns them can make a 12,000% profit per month, per prescription This is a racket
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House Ways and Means Committee Hearing Pharmacy Benefits Manager is questioned on why they’re charging $6,600 per month for a drug that only cost $55 Let me just repeat that. PBMs which are supposed to save us money are negotiating prices 12,000% higher than cost so the insurance companies that owns them can make a 12,000% profit per month, per prescription This is a racket

Wall Street Apes

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Labor and the Liberals are making more empty promises and reckless bribes that will break the bank. Remember when Albanese promised your power bills would drop by $275? That never happened. Now they want you to believe throwing another $8.5 billion at Medicare will fix the system. It won’t. The truth is, billions are already being wasted on fraud, rorts, and mismanagement. Up to $3 billion a year is lost to Medicare fraud. Bulk billing is collapsing. Out-of-pocket costs keep rising. GP clinics are struggling to stay open because of soaring costs driven by Labor’s bad policies. One Nation has a real plan to fix Medicare. We will: - Stop the rorts by introducing mandatory photo ID for Medicare cards - Crack down on fraud so the money goes to patients, not scammers - Increase Medicare rebates to support GPs and bring back bulk billing - Make healthcare affordable by cutting government waste Labor and the Liberals are only promising to buy votes with money we don’t have. One Nation will fix the system and put Australians first.
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Labor and the Liberals are making more empty promises and reckless bribes that will break the bank. Remember when Albanese promised your power bills would drop by $275? That never happened. Now they want you to believe throwing another $8.5 billion at Medicare will fix the system. It won’t. The truth is, billions are already being wasted on fraud, rorts, and mismanagement. Up to $3 billion a year is lost to Medicare fraud. Bulk billing is collapsing. Out-of-pocket costs keep rising. GP clinics are struggling to stay open because of soaring costs driven by Labor’s bad policies. One Nation has a real plan to fix Medicare. We will: - Stop the rorts by introducing mandatory photo ID for Medicare cards - Crack down on fraud so the money goes to patients, not scammers - Increase Medicare rebates to support GPs and bring back bulk billing - Make healthcare affordable by cutting government waste Labor and the Liberals are only promising to buy votes with money we don’t have. One Nation will fix the system and put Australians first.

Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺

27,746 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

WOW 🚨 Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is a Socialist but he’s RICH!! Tax filings show El-Sayed's household earned more than $686,000 in 2025, that’s nearly 10x Michigan's median household income Just like Bernie Sanders, he’s a rich hypocrite “One reason the Medicare for All candidate is raking in cash and backlash is that his wife, a psychiatrist, does not accept Medicare, or any other insurance plan at her practice” Wait just one second…. So his wife is denying cheaper taxpayers funded patients with negotiated government rates and instead only accepts the most profitable patients made possible through our capitalist Big Health Insurance industry??? For those who don’t understand the math here, she’s denying low income patients to make 2-3x+ more per patient with private insurance A psychiatrist that accepts Medicare might make $220,000 but one who only accepts private insurance could make $500,000-$700,000+ per year It’s all a scam. They only preach what makes them rich
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WOW 🚨 Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is a Socialist but he’s RICH!! Tax filings show El-Sayed's household earned more than $686,000 in 2025, that’s nearly 10x Michigan's median household income Just like Bernie Sanders, he’s a rich hypocrite “One reason the Medicare for All candidate is raking in cash and backlash is that his wife, a psychiatrist, does not accept Medicare, or any other insurance plan at her practice” Wait just one second…. So his wife is denying cheaper taxpayers funded patients with negotiated government rates and instead only accepts the most profitable patients made possible through our capitalist Big Health Insurance industry??? For those who don’t understand the math here, she’s denying low income patients to make 2-3x+ more per patient with private insurance A psychiatrist that accepts Medicare might make $220,000 but one who only accepts private insurance could make $500,000-$700,000+ per year It’s all a scam. They only preach what makes them rich

Wall Street Apes

162,850 görüntüleme • 27 gün önce

American pharmacy owner saw Elon Musk’s post on X and has the answer “Elon Musk is asking, what is a pharmacy benefits manager? Well, that one's easy: When you go to pick up your medication and they say, that'll be $10,000. And then you say, oh, how much is it without my insurance? What's the cash price? And they say, that'll be $3. That's a pharmacy benefits manager.” “Now, when you go to the pharmacy and you say, Hey, can I get this for three months so I don't have to come here every single month to pick up the same medication? And they say, no, you gotta come back again in 28 days. That's the pharmacy benefits manager.” “So when you go to the pharmacy and you say, can you guys just mail this to me? They say, no, you gotta come into the pharmacy to pick this up. That's your pharmacy benefits manager.” “When you get a new prescription from your doctor and then the insurance company says, we're gonna need a prior authorization for this medication. That's your pharmacy benefits manager.” “You know when you go to pick up your medicine from the pharmacy you've been going to for 10 years, and suddenly they tell you you can't get it there anymore, you have to go to CVS. That's your pharmacy benefits manager.” “They're right in the middle making everything a huge pain and super expensive”
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American pharmacy owner saw Elon Musk’s post on X and has the answer “Elon Musk is asking, what is a pharmacy benefits manager? Well, that one's easy: When you go to pick up your medication and they say, that'll be $10,000. And then you say, oh, how much is it without my insurance? What's the cash price? And they say, that'll be $3. That's a pharmacy benefits manager.” “Now, when you go to the pharmacy and you say, Hey, can I get this for three months so I don't have to come here every single month to pick up the same medication? And they say, no, you gotta come back again in 28 days. That's the pharmacy benefits manager.” “So when you go to the pharmacy and you say, can you guys just mail this to me? They say, no, you gotta come into the pharmacy to pick this up. That's your pharmacy benefits manager.” “When you get a new prescription from your doctor and then the insurance company says, we're gonna need a prior authorization for this medication. That's your pharmacy benefits manager.” “You know when you go to pick up your medicine from the pharmacy you've been going to for 10 years, and suddenly they tell you you can't get it there anymore, you have to go to CVS. That's your pharmacy benefits manager.” “They're right in the middle making everything a huge pain and super expensive”

Wall Street Apes

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This is how much control Big Pharma has in America Louisiana Reps UNANIMOUSLY voted against a bill that would allow Pharmacy Benefits Managers to raise drug costs for their residents Again, they UNANIMOUSLY voted against it It passed anyway “$2 billion was spent in Louisiana over the last two years on pharmacy benefits managers. Even though the representatives looked at the contract, understood that it was going to underpay small independent pharmacies, and that it was gonna raise costs for individuals The representatives voted against it and they still got stuck with it. How does that happen? They looked into the contract, they understood all the layers of it, they unanimously voted no on the contract, and then the commissioner of administration, Jay Dardenne, signed it anyway, $2 billion, two year contract” “Louisiana got stuck with just by that one guy. How does that one guy have the ability to sign away $2 billion of taxpayer money against the elected officials votes? I don't understand how it goes, but that goes to show you how hard it is gonna be to get rid of PBMs at the regulatory legislative level.”
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This is how much control Big Pharma has in America Louisiana Reps UNANIMOUSLY voted against a bill that would allow Pharmacy Benefits Managers to raise drug costs for their residents Again, they UNANIMOUSLY voted against it It passed anyway “$2 billion was spent in Louisiana over the last two years on pharmacy benefits managers. Even though the representatives looked at the contract, understood that it was going to underpay small independent pharmacies, and that it was gonna raise costs for individuals The representatives voted against it and they still got stuck with it. How does that happen? They looked into the contract, they understood all the layers of it, they unanimously voted no on the contract, and then the commissioner of administration, Jay Dardenne, signed it anyway, $2 billion, two year contract” “Louisiana got stuck with just by that one guy. How does that one guy have the ability to sign away $2 billion of taxpayer money against the elected officials votes? I don't understand how it goes, but that goes to show you how hard it is gonna be to get rid of PBMs at the regulatory legislative level.”

Wall Street Apes

79,650 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

$38 for a Covid Vaccine consultation! No wonder Medicare is struggling. So Labor and Liberals are pledging to spend another $8 billion on Medicare without explaining how they are going to pay for it. A bidding war with other peoples money, or to put it another way money your children and grandchildren will have to pay back. Rather than waste on money on Medicare why don’t they cut some of the unnecessary consultations that doctors get paid for and put the money into hospitals. Take $38 payments to a doctor for a Covid vaccine assessment for example. Why on earth is the taxpayer paying doctors to sell dangerous vaccines on behalf of big pharmaceutical companies with criminal records. The assessment is as simple as asking the question “Do you want a Covid vaccine?” Seriously. It doesn’t end there though - why do we have to see a doctor to get a prescription or a referral. Why can’t we go straight to the pharmacist or specialist. Rather than just throwing more money at Medicare why can’t the Health Bureaucracy and processes be streamlined to save both time and money. Removing the duplication between State and Federal Health systems, in particular nine Health bureaucracies is a key priority. It’s time the major parties stopped wasting taxpayers dollars and actually implemented new ideas that will provide better services before we end up in the Stone Age. Quote from: #auspol
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$38 for a Covid Vaccine consultation! No wonder Medicare is struggling. So Labor and Liberals are pledging to spend another $8 billion on Medicare without explaining how they are going to pay for it. A bidding war with other peoples money, or to put it another way money your children and grandchildren will have to pay back. Rather than waste on money on Medicare why don’t they cut some of the unnecessary consultations that doctors get paid for and put the money into hospitals. Take $38 payments to a doctor for a Covid vaccine assessment for example. Why on earth is the taxpayer paying doctors to sell dangerous vaccines on behalf of big pharmaceutical companies with criminal records. The assessment is as simple as asking the question “Do you want a Covid vaccine?” Seriously. It doesn’t end there though - why do we have to see a doctor to get a prescription or a referral. Why can’t we go straight to the pharmacist or specialist. Rather than just throwing more money at Medicare why can’t the Health Bureaucracy and processes be streamlined to save both time and money. Removing the duplication between State and Federal Health systems, in particular nine Health bureaucracies is a key priority. It’s time the major parties stopped wasting taxpayers dollars and actually implemented new ideas that will provide better services before we end up in the Stone Age. Quote from: #auspol

Gerard Rennick

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