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by whoisjuan 2117 days ago
Yeah. But insurance companies are more profitable when they don’t cover the medications of their customers. They have PBMs because they don’t want get charged more than they should. Insurance companies would love everyone going through GoodRx because then they don’t have to pay for those medications.

There’s really no margins in paying for medications. This is always a red number for the insurance.

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> But insurance companies are more profitable when they don’t cover the medications of their customers

This isn’t accurate. Insurance companies have legal fixed profit margins as a percent of spending, so they want this to be as high as possible. This creates a vested interest in both maintaining high prices and spending.

In an area with multiple health insurance companies, they can’t just keep spending more and keep raising premiums otherwise a competing insurer will take their business with lower premiums.