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My Dad's doctor was wonderful he worked with drug companies and was able to get my Dad's medication heavily rebated to the point his health coverage covered the
by dghughes 3y ago
My Dad's doctor was wonderful he worked with drug companies and was able to get my Dad's medication heavily rebated to the point his health coverage covered the difference. Anything else could be claimed on taxes.
Dad would have had to pay about $40K for Esbriet (for IPF a lung disease), and $1,700 per dose once every two weeks for Humira. And other drugs too like morphine, prednisone, laxatives and so on. But basically it ended up being almost $0.
Doctors do and can help a lot with drug costs. At least here in Canada the US who knows doctors probably get more in drug sales than anything.
- lotsofpulp 3y agohomero was not disputing that doctors can help, they were pointing out that the expectation of a doctor to know the ins and outs of someone's particular insurance plan and pricing of particular medicines is not reasonable, therefore irrational bringing up how the doctor neglected to mention a coupon in their story is an irrelevant detail since there should not be any expectation of doctors knowing about coupons for the medicine. Just like there should not be an expectation for the doctor knowing and telling you there is a coupon for vegetables at the grocery store if they tell you to eat more vegetables. If the doctor does know it, that is a bonus.