{"id":185986,"date":"2014-06-24T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/24\/insurance-companies-go-postal-on-advair-sales-collapse\/"},"modified":"2014-06-24T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T02:39:00","slug":"insurance-companies-go-postal-on-advair-sales-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/24\/insurance-companies-go-postal-on-advair-sales-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Companies Go Postal on Advair, Sales Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/9osxNPI.png\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/9osxNPI.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/><\/a>It appears that pharmacy managers have decided that <a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.com\/2014\/06\/advair-sales-plummet-insurance-companies-refuse-pay-obscenely-overpriced-drug.html\">spending 5x as much as a French patient does is stupid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Hallelujah. I never thought I\u2019d see the day that I\u2019d praise an insurance company. But&nbsp;the proverbial Atlas just shrugged.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Insurance company pharmacy benefit managers, who have apparently had  it with drug companies charging American consumers ridiculously high,  and ever-increasing, prices for prescription drugs, are starting to say  \u201cenough.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">At the top&nbsp;of the list is my asthma drug, Advair.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Some big insurance company pharmacy benefits managers are simply no  longer permitting their plans to cover Advair. Or at best, they\u2019ve  relegated Advair to the lower \u201cthird tier,\u201d&nbsp;which means the patient has  to pay so much of the price that they simply won\u2019t buy the drug at all.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">As a result, <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Advair sales plummeted 30% this year in the US<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a battle between two groups of parasites, and I hope that there is a way for both of them to ose.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, there is, it&#8217;s called <b><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Single Payer<\/span><\/b>, bitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that pharmacy managers have decided that spending 5x as much as a French patient does is stupid: Hallelujah. I never thought I\u2019d see the day that I\u2019d praise an insurance company. But&nbsp;the proverbial Atlas just shrugged.Insurance company pharmacy benefit managers, who have apparently had it with drug companies charging American consumers ridiculously high, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1045,1074,1018,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-insurance","category-medical","category-pharma","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}