• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      14 days ago

      I’m honestly hoping that the next time someone gets so tired of these NAS murdering dick heads, that enough lessons have been learned from Luigi’s situation that the entire populous turns into Johnny tightlips, and the feds can’t find them.

      I swear that Luigi would have lived a long, happy life if not for that one person who called him in.

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      14 days ago

      “few” is really unscientific. everyone knows for an experiment to yield reliable results you need a representative sample size. and then repeat the experiment to see if it gives the same result. only then you can be confident.

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    I hope those parents find justice. With their son gone there’s no telling what might happen. I hope the ceo chokes on his toast.

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      I know what you mean, but comments like yours always make me feel sad. Like, what is justice in this context? A just world would be one in which their son is still alive. Justice died with him.

      My own experience of litigating an injustice sticks with me. No amount of compensation can ever undo a wrong that should’ve never been allowed to happen.

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      14 days ago

      The system is working as designed.

      It’s not designed to help you, but it’s working as it was designed to work.

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    So you’re saying posting angry guillotine threats didn’t actually fix our healthcare system? Was it just armchair revolutionaries impotently blowing off steam and acting badass? Wow, that’s a head scratcher.

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      Just the start of violence. Same way colombine was the first school shooting. Just takes worse material conditions. Something trump and the Republicans seem hell bent on.

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    Not just arrested. Luigi’s been mostly in solitary confinement and straight jackets this whole time.

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    The drug I’ve paid $25/15 pills for the past couple months suddenly jumped up to $140 this week. I tried giving CVS a GoodRX coupon to knock it down to $75 and they told me they no longer accept them.

    It’s an important drug to me, but luckily not vital to my survival. Still, fuck this healthcare system.

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        14 days ago

        According to a thread I found on the bad place, individual pharmacists can make the decision to reject coupons for prescription drugs. This was per an account that claimed to be a GoodRx rep

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          That’s even better.

          If it’s an individual pharmacist doing it, you know where they work, you go give them shit every day.

          I won’t fault the guy behind the counter if CVS has a policy. But if that guy behind the counter made the decision? Fuck that guy in particular. He’s gonna hear about it.

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              In cvs (or any us retail pharmacy), the store manager has no control over the pharmacist. Ask the the pharmacist for their supervisor contact info. If they present anyone from the front store, ask that person for the pharmacists supervisor info.

              I dont recommend going full Karen, mind you, but running one or two discount cards to see if it helps is the fucking minimum.

              I was a lead pharm tech in a busy east coast cvs for years. I could not always run each of the 42 discount cards a customer brought in, but good rx for sure, and at least a couple others. And if they wanted, yea over the course of a few days yes, I would run 42 fucking claims and call them and let em know which one knocked 6 bucks off the monthly 1800 out of pocket cost.

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      Hi, I’m an independent pharmacist

      1. CVS is CVS Caremark Aetna… They are as big as it gets in healthcare. They are a big 3 PBM ruining the whole system and the number 1 pharmacy chain. If you have any choice at all don’t use them

      2. Goodrx takes money on the back end from stores and sells your info. Most independents don’t use them, but they’ll have an in house price that is usually not going to be much worse than goodrx

      3. Someone in this thread making a joke about assassinating a pharmacist is… I don’t even know what.

      CVS did a good job of some areas of wiping out competition in their expansion days so you may not have other options. If that’s really the case, you could fight big with big and see if Amazon has a better rate. Though really it sucks that your insurance would increase the copay so much on you.

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        Though really it sucks that your insurance would increase the copay so much on you.

        Oh, we are way beyond that point. My insurance stopped paying for this drug years ago. Told me I had reached the “lifetime benefit limit”. This is all out of pocket and the price yo-yos constantly. It’s not the first time it’s been this high.

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    Optum bought the local clinic and so far my wife’s rheumatologist and nephrologist both have left.

    Can’t wait to see where this will lead.

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      Do you know where they have left to? I wonder where Medical Doctors consider better places.

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        I live in the PNW, my doctor retired. Multicare, instead of just transferring my wife and I to different doctors, did nothing, and now are treating us, did nothing.

        We are being treated as new patients and the earliest a new patient can be seen is October 29th. Yes, 9 months away.

        The earliest date I have been givenrom any of the other doctors offices I have called was June.

        The joke used to be whenever anybody asked why their area had so few doctors was that they doctors all were in Seattle. Yeah, maybe, but they certainly aren’t seeing anybody in a timely manner.

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        I hope they come back to Canada, we could really use a couple here. We don’t pay as much, but at least you won’t have to tell a patient they can’t afford life saving care… (yet)

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      14 days ago

      People need to storm the streets and fuck shit up like the French. They can’t arrest us all

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      I think it’d be more effective if the perp got away with it.

      More fear for the billionaires.