[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

Alright, you didn't ask for any of this, but I have some thoughts about GoodRX.

GoodRX is an ok stop-gap to get people medications they need, but it's still not great. They set their prices based on agreements with PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers), which are the companies that actually provide prescription insurance benefits if you're commercially insured (not your insurance company). Actually, on the computer side, there's no difference between GoodRX and insurance, they are used the same way. The GoodRX coupon has the same numbers on it that a commercial insurance card would have (ID number, BIN, PCN, group number) and a "claim" gets submitted the same way it would be submitted to your insurance company (which is actually the PBM, not your insurance company). The pharmacy has to pay the PBM to process the claim (which is kinda BS, right?) regardless of if the patient is using insurance OR GoodRX, so a lot of local/independent pharmacies can't or won't take GoodRX because they end up actually taking a loss on dispensing the drug due to PBM fees.

I am a pharmacy technician that used to work in outpatient pharmacy; I've helped a lot of people save money with GoodRX, but I usually try to find literally anything else I can do to lower the price first. Prescription billing in the US is absolutely FUBAR.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Dude calls himself a fascist in his own comments

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Tesla's self driving appears to be less safe and causes more accidents than their competitors.

"NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation said in documents released Friday that it completed “an extensive body of work” which turned up evidence that “Tesla’s weak driver engagement system was not appropriate for Autopilot’s permissive operating capabilities."

Tesla bad.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

The two fields are pretty inseparable at a certain level ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Just like money.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

God damn, Lemmy's got some dumb fuckin' users.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

😮‍💨 I understand too well. "Average" single family homes in my area were like $400,000, now it's $820,000. Rents for single bedroom apartments went from about $800-900 month to $1,600+ per month. I live in a town of about 65,000 in the Rockies, middle of nowhere, like minimum 5 hour drive to a city with more than a million people, yet somehow, people are still flocking here from all across the country.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

You should go outside.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Go outside and stop being mean to people on the Internet 🙏

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Here it refers to hot dogs rolled in croissant dough and baked.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I work in a hospital pharmacy, and I had to compound some custom eye drops for a patient the other day. I have to wear a hair net, beard net, shoe covers, a gown, and sterile gloves to even enter the cleanroom. Being barefoot in a cleanroom for sterile manufacturing is a hard no.

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