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by iudqnolq 1346 days ago
Behind the scenes, to the extent significant, the third party risk when it comes to drug quality is identical and low.

Pharma charges goodRx less because it's market segmentation - they're assuming many goodRx users would otherwise just suffer without and thus generate no profit.

Some people speculate goodRx subsidizes prices by selling data. I don't find their analysis convincing as they don't explain how goodRx has data meaningfully more valuable than the data pharma already buys from other sources like pharmacies.