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Comment by hermanzegerman

1 month ago

You know that nearly nobody in the US pays the sticker price of Drugs?

They have to put an absurd sticker price on the drugs so that the "Pharmacy Benefit Manager" (an useless middlemen that only exists in US Healthcare) can "negotiate" a "discount" on behalf of your insurance (aka the real price), for which he takes a cut based on how big the "discount" is

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