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Name the movie that line came from and win a Kewpie doll!
Not really, I don't have any Kewpie dolls to give away.
Anyway, the most recent drug I was put on was yet another respiratory drug to improve my lung function called Serevent Diskus. My immunologist, who is effectively my PCP (primary care provider) saw a lung function test and thought there was room for improvement in my small airway passages. And this drug delivered! It did improve those areas.
The problem was that it was $120 a month for the blasted thing. One of the reasons why it's so expensive is that it's very new and thus still under its original patent and no generics available.
That is, until last month, when it became $170 a month.
I don't know if Walgreens is gouging or the vendor is gouging or who, but I'M TIRED OF BEING GOUGED!
And now it is time for me to order refills!
Now, I'm constantly pressured by my pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) to get all of my meds in 90 day supply from them. "It will save you money!" Yeah, while simultaneously enriching you further and taking money out of my local tax base. No effing thanks!
Well, screw this. I went on their web site to price this drug. Three month supply of the exact same drug? ONE HUNDRED FORTY DOLLARS. And free shipping if I don't mind getting it in 3-5 days.
So I subscribed. I have about 17 days remaining in my current one, which is plenty for them to get me a fresh shipment. And I'll do just fine without it for some time.
I don't get my meds from my PBM for two reasons. The biggest is that it takes dollars out of my local area that directly fund jobs and the tax base. The other is that the PBM already makes a ton of money from me, so screw them. But this is too much. This is over a 4x markup on this stupid drug that has a small but measurable improvement in my health. Ignoring the fact that lung function is important to everybody's well-being, it's very important in mine in that I'm especially susceptible to pneumonia, so the goal of all my meds is to keep my lungs in as great of shape as possible so they can fight off pneumonia if it comes a-knockin'. So I need this stuff, and not at a 4x+ markup!
I'll bet Mister Martin "Pharma Bro" Skrelli, sitting in prison, would say something like "But it's just money, bro! Earn more!" That's not how the world works, and I'm not the one sitting in prison.
And while I won't name the movie, it had a lot of up and coming stars, was released before the turn of the century, and among its stars are Jeff Goldblum, Robert Ito, John Lithgow and Christopher Lloyd.
Not really, I don't have any Kewpie dolls to give away.
Anyway, the most recent drug I was put on was yet another respiratory drug to improve my lung function called Serevent Diskus. My immunologist, who is effectively my PCP (primary care provider) saw a lung function test and thought there was room for improvement in my small airway passages. And this drug delivered! It did improve those areas.
The problem was that it was $120 a month for the blasted thing. One of the reasons why it's so expensive is that it's very new and thus still under its original patent and no generics available.
That is, until last month, when it became $170 a month.
I don't know if Walgreens is gouging or the vendor is gouging or who, but I'M TIRED OF BEING GOUGED!
And now it is time for me to order refills!
Now, I'm constantly pressured by my pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) to get all of my meds in 90 day supply from them. "It will save you money!" Yeah, while simultaneously enriching you further and taking money out of my local tax base. No effing thanks!
Well, screw this. I went on their web site to price this drug. Three month supply of the exact same drug? ONE HUNDRED FORTY DOLLARS. And free shipping if I don't mind getting it in 3-5 days.
So I subscribed. I have about 17 days remaining in my current one, which is plenty for them to get me a fresh shipment. And I'll do just fine without it for some time.
I don't get my meds from my PBM for two reasons. The biggest is that it takes dollars out of my local area that directly fund jobs and the tax base. The other is that the PBM already makes a ton of money from me, so screw them. But this is too much. This is over a 4x markup on this stupid drug that has a small but measurable improvement in my health. Ignoring the fact that lung function is important to everybody's well-being, it's very important in mine in that I'm especially susceptible to pneumonia, so the goal of all my meds is to keep my lungs in as great of shape as possible so they can fight off pneumonia if it comes a-knockin'. So I need this stuff, and not at a 4x+ markup!
I'll bet Mister Martin "Pharma Bro" Skrelli, sitting in prison, would say something like "But it's just money, bro! Earn more!" That's not how the world works, and I'm not the one sitting in prison.
And while I won't name the movie, it had a lot of up and coming stars, was released before the turn of the century, and among its stars are Jeff Goldblum, Robert Ito, John Lithgow and Christopher Lloyd.
