so is now a bad time to say that we've had our prescription medication cost caps dropped by a further $10 down undah, and that pensioners/unemployed/disabled people have had their price cap frozen for the next 4 years (I think they spend a total of $7.50 per script?) - tell me again how evil social medicine is
I find it interesting that CVS/Aetna/CVS caremark makes all of this money in their healthcare monopoly, yet still found it necessary to kick millions of seniors off their Medicare advantage plans.
Older people with more health issues are not good for their bottom line.
Hey AOC! Use me! Trapped in Aetna/CVS by State of CT retiree health plan awarded to Aetna over BCBS, forced to use CVS, unable to "negotiate" anything. I just grovel for whatever crumbs they deign to give me. Rules for prescription fills change without notice to mere drug users like me. Physician-ordered MRI denied for months while my spine degenerates to dust.
I discovered this "vertical integration" when state switched to Aetna, a decision I'm sure made only by the wisest and most generous people concerned solely for my well-being...
Ha ha ha! Blue states make dealy deals too. The price of living in corporatist America is constant vigilance. And lots and lots of money.
When we were going through IVF (I was doing the easy part if I’m being honest) the drugs were thousands of dollars more going through insurance - CVS and Aetna - than buying them from an out of network pharmacy our doctor recommended.
Wonder if the CVS ghouls have somehow vertically integrated funeral services in their business model. From a profit perspective only it makes sense. Diseased, dying to death.
No but interesting at one point the biggest maker of hospital beds in the country was also the biggest maker of caskets. Hillenbrand Industries started as Batesville Casket Co, then added hospital beds as Hill Rom decades later.
I was recently tasked by my rheumatologist with finding an RA drug CVS/Caremark would cover, as every drug he prescribed they denied. Out of 21 RA drugs I researched, 3 were covered & 1 was listed as covered by their prescription by mail program but unavailable & uncovered if you tried to get it from a pharmacy. God help the poor bastards that need to take that one.
According to Wikipedia David Joyner was appointed to his position because shareholders complained the share prices were too low. His job at CVS is to get those profits up, not make anyone healthy. He is a perfect example of why America's "healthcare" system is fundamentally flawed. To companies like CVS healthcare is a product, like apples or cars, to be sold at the lowest cost and the highest profit possible.
I love the raking over the coals but unfortunately nothing comes of this. CEOs get publicity embarrassed and then still get a massive paycheck for their “fully integrated consumers” and the corporations still have record (barely taxed) profits.
Ta, Robyn. Everyone here knows I work for an FQHC in The South Bronx. With all the slash-and-burn happening to Medicaid and Medicare, I fear for my clients' futures. They're all HIV positive adults.
US "healthcare" keeps getting crazier every time I hear about it.
its 14' in Worcester, Ma - with plenty of SNOW to keep us warm - working out, but where to put It ALL ?
so is now a bad time to say that we've had our prescription medication cost caps dropped by a further $10 down undah, and that pensioners/unemployed/disabled people have had their price cap frozen for the next 4 years (I think they spend a total of $7.50 per script?) - tell me again how evil social medicine is
I find it interesting that CVS/Aetna/CVS caremark makes all of this money in their healthcare monopoly, yet still found it necessary to kick millions of seniors off their Medicare advantage plans.
Older people with more health issues are not good for their bottom line.
These CEOs make me sick.
AOC has the best staff on Capitol Hill, bar none.
Hey AOC! Use me! Trapped in Aetna/CVS by State of CT retiree health plan awarded to Aetna over BCBS, forced to use CVS, unable to "negotiate" anything. I just grovel for whatever crumbs they deign to give me. Rules for prescription fills change without notice to mere drug users like me. Physician-ordered MRI denied for months while my spine degenerates to dust.
I discovered this "vertical integration" when state switched to Aetna, a decision I'm sure made only by the wisest and most generous people concerned solely for my well-being...
Ha ha ha! Blue states make dealy deals too. The price of living in corporatist America is constant vigilance. And lots and lots of money.
This great! Now get a CEO from United in there to get destroyed!
Oh, wait.
Fun fact -
When we were going through IVF (I was doing the easy part if I’m being honest) the drugs were thousands of dollars more going through insurance - CVS and Aetna - than buying them from an out of network pharmacy our doctor recommended.
Wonder if the CVS ghouls have somehow vertically integrated funeral services in their business model. From a profit perspective only it makes sense. Diseased, dying to death.
No but interesting at one point the biggest maker of hospital beds in the country was also the biggest maker of caskets. Hillenbrand Industries started as Batesville Casket Co, then added hospital beds as Hill Rom decades later.
I was recently tasked by my rheumatologist with finding an RA drug CVS/Caremark would cover, as every drug he prescribed they denied. Out of 21 RA drugs I researched, 3 were covered & 1 was listed as covered by their prescription by mail program but unavailable & uncovered if you tried to get it from a pharmacy. God help the poor bastards that need to take that one.
According to Wikipedia David Joyner was appointed to his position because shareholders complained the share prices were too low. His job at CVS is to get those profits up, not make anyone healthy. He is a perfect example of why America's "healthcare" system is fundamentally flawed. To companies like CVS healthcare is a product, like apples or cars, to be sold at the lowest cost and the highest profit possible.
I love the raking over the coals but unfortunately nothing comes of this. CEOs get publicity embarrassed and then still get a massive paycheck for their “fully integrated consumers” and the corporations still have record (barely taxed) profits.
We need so much more of this. GOP voters think dems aren’t biz savvy. Not true!
I just got stuffed into Caremark Part D.
Shit.
Ta, Robyn. Everyone here knows I work for an FQHC in The South Bronx. With all the slash-and-burn happening to Medicaid and Medicare, I fear for my clients' futures. They're all HIV positive adults.
Twenty-four grand a year, before—or whether or not—you even file a claim?!
These fucking parasites are out of their gawdamn minds.
Also where did they find that Joyner guy; wrapped with gauze inside an ancient Egyptian tomb?