WOW 🚨 To Elon Musk and the DOGE team looking at Medicare:
Pharmacist says
- This medication is Pirfenidone
- Medicare filled it 85,000 times in 2022 at an average cost of $8,000 per prescription
- Normal cost without insurance ONLY $200 TO FILL
- They spent $680 million on that one drug in just one year
“However, at my pharmacy, which is a cost plus pharmacy, meaning we don't take insurance, that same prescription would only cost $200”
“If we filled all 85,000 prescriptions, it would cost $17 million total. That means Medicare is overpaying by $663 million every year.”
Good find
@RedPilledGirly