offsetting? interesting word

just like GoodRx and every other pharmaceutical company that sells generics. you're climbing to be a genius for doing something that everybody else is doing.

he could make even more billions of dollars. at our expense. that would be great! I get that pbms are evil and stupid, but he's not going to give the money to us

do you? do you really know that? because he's not paying for drugs to get to the market, he's just buying the things that actual pharma people are producing. you know that right? you really know that before you are saying this?

yeah, he doesn't do them. and his prices on generic are worse than most of the other generic things like GoodRx. he's a parasite, the sooner you realize that, the better you'll be. even if you get two cents off on your Lisinopril.

stroke his cock

dude Price Plus is absolutely predatory, if you have insurance you're not going to pay that much with your help pay as you pay with him. he's trying to snipe the generics. and take people off of insurance possibly

yeah for example the most commonly cited number is saving an average of a little under $5 versus Medicare per prescription. that works out to $20 to $60 annually per prescription. but for example atorvastatin is $3 for 90 days under Medicare for my dad.

or what you could do with a national health plan. just eliminate the pbms all together.

and it's important to understand the more we fragment these markets the more expensive it becomes for everybody as a whole even if people like Mark Cuban can snipe the low-hanging fruit.

but we're still back in the same place. what we need is a comprehensive and sensible national health care plan like every other place in the world that's developed. then we wouldn't have to spend time and political capital on these kinds of issues.

Patient-Level Savings on Generic Drugs Through the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company This economic evaluation estimates the out-of-pocket cost savings patients could achieve if generic drugs were purchased directly from the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company rather than using their health insurance.

here's a national institute of health study on the savings that the cost Plus drug program gives for savings. and they are there for a small range of generic drugs. so sure if that's what you're looking for and it's on the list, go for it. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

this is not a free market in any way. picking cheapest prices is a fantasy because many meds are simply unaffordable without various kinds of coverage along the way. pretending that out of pocket has any relationship to the ultimate price, and thus availability is just foolishness

just so you're aware, they're not trying to be literal, they're trying to be accurate. consumers picking the cheapest price is simply a bumper sticker. when the prices and especially the pbms that you mention screw all the prices. and their approval doesn't change the prices

but isn't his objection that Medicare for all would be politically unfeasible. read the rest of his posts on this. his proposal along with being completely unworkable and it's details, would be political poison. the very same people would spike it as would spike Medicare for all

every single ocde country except for the United States has universal healthcare. we pay at least double per capita for our healthcare than any of these countries and leave millions uncovered. the math on this is very simple as to how these things are paid. if you were the slightest bit curious..

you should sit down and talk to yourself, or get somebody to talk to you to ask a very serious question. you're a smart and successful man with training and expertise in a couple of different fields. none of them are public policy none of them are health policy. you should stop opining about it.

When I was living in Taiwan in the 1980s, this was absolutely standard practice. You didn't get loans and mortgages, friend and affinity groups got together and pooled their resources to build housing in various different forms (in a period of crazy development).

I get the $1,200 a year means nothing at all to you. a mere pittance. a tip. for me it's 2 months rent. what you're proposing is it administrative nightmare. anything you save off of insurance overhead, you're going to add by an entire department to manage this nonsense

you should rethink this. of course there would be claims. how did the healthcare providers get paid? they're not going to accept $83 a month for a $5 million dollar bill. and how are you going to control costs under this? what do you do with people who can't afford to pay that $100/month tax?

project Veritas redux.. to paraphrase Rick in Casablanca "it's worked before.." depressing.

Project Veritas wannabes I suppose. depressing that there's an audience for that kind of thing.

I think the point there is so that you don't just automatically go for it on 4th every time, and if the play isn't working then just accept a sort of second-rate punt or directionally punt to some empty space where it will roll. NFL doesn't really like those kind of schoolyard plays, even on returns

and it's entirely based on AI investment and consumer debt. it is not a strong economy by American standards

I guess that Reiner (RIP) wanted the dramatic honor suicide in full dress. but just didn't want to spend the time or distract from that moment by trying to figure out some way to explain it.

not everybody gets to be the manager, no matter how hard they work, no matter how much extra labor they provide.

which is good, right? you don't want to be remembered for your work schedule, you want to be remembered for your accomplishments (often not work accomplishments, depending on your job). not to mention the inherent theft of Labor for people working unpaid over time for the false promise of promotion

as long as the opinion is strongly held! amirite?

I've got a sinking feeling about this..

The Bulwark really loves the idea that being anti-trump cleanses all evil.