I can't understand how you can justify the charge of $26 for delivery of a pill that cost pennies or a fraction of a penny...The percentage of profit on that is outrageous...It doesn't matter if the insurance company pays that amount or not, the consumer without coverage will be billed that cost...

 

You really can't have a "free market" for healthcare facilities because only the health care industry can have them...it's not like you can turn the neighborhood tavern into an unregulated private healthcare facility open only to members of the tavern...You can't make health care facilities like country clubs where you buy memberships, you certainly can't open your own hospital and it's doubtful you would ever get licensed to open an urgent care facility either because they health care industry mainly hospitals want ALL the business...

 

When they made it a law that hospitals could not turn away patients because they didn't have the ability to pay, they would have created some form of compensation for that occasion...Some of which you stated above...

 

Using your example above, you make it sound like the difference between carry out and delivery is the same as the difference between selling their pizza at $10 for pick up and $12 for delivery rather than a pill that was purchased for pennies or a fraction of a penny and sold for $26...There is a HUGE difference between the two...I don't have a problem with the deliverer mechanism, I have a problem with the huge differential between the cost to purchase the pill and the price sold to the consumer...I would be ok with something like $2 - $5, but $26 is just way too much and they should be investigated for price gouging... .

 

 

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