I have no problem paying cash when I can. The issue is I refilled some meds for my daughter yesterday she needs as a result from a brain injury and without insurance it would have been $457 for a 30 day supply. Bring the costs down and it will work. Cost of research and dev be damned, the cost is high to pad revenue so they can offer price adjusted assistance to the low income to look good and run viagra commercials non-stop on network tv.
Watched a program on one of the alphabet channels last night. Five different ads from law firms asking people to contact them to join in a class action suit if they “think” they may have suffered damages due to taking prescription meds. Covered five different medications.
People need to realize that the only ones who make money on these are the attorneys. Certainly Congress could address the issue of tort reform but not a chance of that - too many of them are attorneys and don’t want to kill the goose that lays their golden eggs.
Doctors are generally woefully ignorant about the meds they are prescribing for their patients and only know what the snake oil salesmen drug reps tell them.
The whole system is just totally busted - top to bottom.