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I still think this is a great service regardless.
So is the cost actually low? The last time this came up on HN people agreed the costs are standard and the other pharmacies do not charge the high prices on the comparisons.
> Why are your prices so cheap?
Not native English, but that is not English right?
Edit; guess my school English told me that is wrong ;
- prices are low
- this medicine is cheap
So learned something ;) thanks
As always the issue with privatized social services is that the goal is to make money, not to provide a service so the incentives are fundamentally misaligned. For-profit care providers make money when the fail to provide care. When they fail to cover procedures. When they can substitute lower-quality or less effective goods and services. When they can sell you catastrophic cover with deductibles and co-pays too high…
Let's hope you make a better fist of it than the UK - the NHS is currently unreformable to any significant degree, due to it being weaponised by the left.
US per capita health expenditure: $11000USD (#1).
I don't know what the 'left' is doing there but it seems very efficient.
I just found out that insulin is ten times more expensive in the US compare to Europe. This can hardly be explained without the existance of a price cartel and something seems to be really rotten in the US drug market. Let's hope that efforts like this will help bring prices down to a more reasonable level.
As always the issue with privatized social services is that the goal is to make money, not to provide a service so the incentives are fundamentally misaligned. For-profit care providers make money when the fail to provide care. When they fail to cover procedures. When they can substitute lower-quality or less effective goods and services. When they can sell you catastrophic cover with deductibles and co-pays too high…
Let's hope you make a better fist of it than the UK - the NHS is currently unreformable to any significant degree, due to it being weaponised by the left.
Maybe this is me "weaponising" the NHS but you're going to have to provide a bit more evidence if you're making such a bold claim.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's pretty much it, but I would add that since medicine in the American sphere of influence is a cornered market the goal is always to deny care, so the patients are more desperate and pay higher prices. Endgame is a billionaire paying his whole billion-dollar fortune for a loaf of bread because he's starving. First you have to corner the market, then deny food, then eventually yes, eventually he will in fact pay…
Indeed there's no reason that Cuban won't, like Uber, wake up one day and 5X prices - or bring in the recently-released Pharma Bro Shkrelli. Good will and brand alone isn't sufficient to build a medical system on.
How is the cost so low? we bypass the pharmacy middleman. ooooh okay that is really neat How do I get the drugs? order it from our pharmacy. Wat?
They bypass the people who sell drugs to existing pharmacies by operating their own D2C pharmacy themselves. Instead of: Pharma co -> Distribution -> Pharmacy -> You It's: Pharma co -> Cost Plus -> You. Cost plus is still a pharmacy by definition.
"We work with Truepill pharmacy, our trusted fulfillment partner to fill your prescriptions. Truepill has a team of accredited pharmacists who will ensure your medication is safe and delivered to your doorstep on time."
Oh, and guess who owns most of TruePill???
Hint - https://www.optumventures.com/portfolio
There is very little new in the PBM/Pharmacy world from what I've seen, just more layers of redirection and subterfuge :)
From the faq; > Why are your prices so cheap? Not native English, but that is not English right? Edit; guess my school English told me that is wrong ; - prices are low - this medicine is cheap So learned something ;) thanks
From the faq; > Why are your prices so cheap? Not native English, but that is not English right? Edit; guess my school English told me that is wrong ; - prices are low - this medicine is cheap So learned something ;) thanks