A user on TikTok has recently gone viral after voicing his frustration with GoodRx, a telemedicine platform that claims to offer discounts on prescription medications. The video was posted by Kevin O’Connell (@kevbot.pdf), who said he recently lost his health insurance and thus access to his prescriptions and turned to GoodRx in the hope of … Read more
Prices for prescription medicine continue to be challenging for Americans to navigate—as shown by one pharmacist’s advice to a GoodRx customer. A TikTok video by creator Skittly (@skittlydat) detailed an encounter with someone who was trying to secure an EpiPen. EpiPen is the brand name of an auto-injectable device that delivers the drug epinephrine. It … Read more
A former pharmacy tech, who worked for a “three-letter pharmacy corporation” that commenters took to mean CVS, shared her experience using GoodRx coupons to help customers with expensive prescriptions—and how one of the pharmacists there specifically told her not to do that. TikTok user Jade (@dogtier) shared her story in a viral video that has … Read more
Medication in the United States is expensive. According to the Peterson Center on Healthcare, in 2019, “the U.S. spent $1,126 per capita on prescribed medicines, while comparable countries spent $552 on average,” a cost that included “spending from insurers and out-of-pocket costs from patients for prescription drugs filled at the pharmacy.” A 2021 report from … Read more