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Yes, a tablet is a single pill. Sometimes you'll split the pill, so a tablet might be 2 doses. But 1 pill. Note that retail pricing is an unreliable indication
by biggestdummy 6y ago
Yes, a tablet is a single pill. Sometimes you'll split the pill, so a tablet might be 2 doses. But 1 pill.
Note that retail pricing is an unreliable indication of actual cost to consumers. They jack it up so that they various plans can claim huge discount policies. Some of these plans are free, so there's very few people who are paying this "retail" price.
The pill makers get paid by the consumers and, in most cases, by the plan-owners. And such agreements are made exceedingly complicated. IMO, only to make them more opaque and more difficult to regulate.
Unfortunately, such a system is highly regressive as the richest tend to have the best plans, the poorest tend to have a meager plan, and the transient have no plan other than showing up at a hospital.
- cavisne 6y agoThe US system works like this * hospitals run as non profits, so they dont pay federal taxes * they still pay local taxes, so they need to generate a large loss to offset these taxes * insurance companies negotiate huge "discounts" on list prices, and then go back to their customers (large corporations) and boast about these discounts, meanwhile the hospital gets its tax writeoff This entire system is rigged to also grow the number of hospitals/ the overall size of healthcare in america. Pharma companies play this game too, and anyone who doesnt have insurance can quietly get a "coupon" from them to bring down the cash price to the same as insurance. No politician will close hospitals, so at this stage any move to "single payer" will just move the boasting role to the government.
- chordalkeyboard 6y ago> This entire system is rigged to also grow the number of hospitals/ the overall size of healthcare in america. If this were the case, I wouldn’t be as opposed to it.