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Chief Medical Officer @ Access Pediatric | Telemedicine

What does health insurance do? The conversation in the attached screenshot sums it up. We have a distorted market in healthcare. For drugs, there is a middleman called PBM between the insurance and the drug companies. The PBM negotiates a higher rate than the cash price - usually 2x or 3x and then receives an under the table rebate from the drug company. It passes of portion of this rebate to the insurer. The end effect is that the bottom price for the consumer is increased. The consumer believes that their insurance saved them a lot of money. #healthcare

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