Pharma costs

Hope this happens; I’ll believe when I see it.

Nothing in those orders will make Walgreens charge the same for cash customers as they are paid by insurance companies.
My Atorvastatin 40MG cost $23.94 for a 90 day supply. I have WellCare insurance. I once lost my bottle a month before it was due for a refil, the cost for one month was $170. The pharmacist said sorry, I cannot give you the insurance price.

Nothing in those orders will make Walgreens charge the same for cash customers as they are paid by insurance companies.
My Atorvastatin 40MG cost $23.94 for a 90 day supply. I have WellCare insurance. I once lost my bottle a month before it was due for a refil, the cost for one month was $170. The pharmacist said sorry, I cannot give you the insurance price.

You are being had this stuff is $15.00 for 90 day at Costco without ins and about $8 for one month.

40MG Atorvastatin is 22.99 per Costco website. Costco does not list three of my perscriptions but there are four that would save me 120.76 a year. I will check and see if they can get the other three.

goodrx.com is where it's at

Allow states, wholesalers and pharmacies to import FDA-approved drugs from foreign countries and sell them in the U.S. Trump has long complained that countries where the government sets the price of drugs are taking advantage of American consumers. The order includes a special provision to allow wholesalers and pharmacies to re-import insulin and biological drugs. The pharmaceutical industry says importation could undermine U.S. quality standards.


Use the lowest price among other economically advanced countries to set what Medicare pays for certain drugs administered in a doctor's office, including many cancer medications. This would apply to the most expensive medications covered by Medicare's "Part B," which pays for outpatient care. Drugmakers are particularly leery of the approach, since Democrats want to use it more broadly to allow Medicare to directly negotiate prices.


Direct federally funded community health centers to pass discounts they now get for insulin and EpiPens directly to low-income patients.


Ensure that rebates drugmakers now pay to benefit managers and insurers get passed directly to patients when they buy a medication. The White House last year withdrew an earlier version of the proposal, after the Congressional Budget Office estimated it would cost taxpayers $177 billion over 10 years. Administration officials now question that number.