Yeah, the journey to stimulants for me was long and painful, with a lot of procrastination on my part. And now even having them prescribed it is a pain dealing with the bureaucratic / expensive nightmare of USA health insurance.
I just go through GoodRx now, makes it like $20 per month for my prescription. You don't even need to make an account with them, it's like coupon you don't even need to print out. Just tell the pharmacist you are going to use GoodRx and you are done.
My work insurance seems to change all the time, and while going through GoodRx doesn't count towards my deductible, I prefer the price stability. Not fun when I'm randomly told it's $120 now at the pharmacy because my insurance doesn't cover it now for some fucking inane reason. A few phone calls can often resolve it, but it's the last thing I want to do when I'm a day away from withdrawals kicking in. Even more absurd is this is basically guaranteed to happen more than once a year, THERE IS ONLY 12 MONTHS IN A YEAR!
GoodRx is genuinely a good deal. There's a paid offering (called Gold, I think?) that makes things cheaper, but whether it pays for itself will depend on what you're filling.
Insurance often refuses to cover ADHD meds, so a lot of us our paying the full price. Which is garbage, and is very much to do with insurance and our system of it.
They issue licenses for making the drugs and getting the raw materials to make them. The process is inflexible at best and if manufacturer A hits their quota, they can’t get additional raw materials, even if manufacturer B has excess.
Like most things associated with drug criminality, the rules are stupid and capricious.
And this has nothing to do with insurance, but does have to do with government bureaucracy negatively impacting people getting treatment for an illness.
Health insurance prior authorization policy, approved medication lists, and network pharmacy policies complicate maintaining continuous access during the DEA-imposed artificial shortage by complicating transferring prescriptions to pharmacies that have supply available and transferring prescriptions to substantially-equivalent drugs sold by different manufacturers.
I like that you’re posting “check and mate the DEA doesn’t do health insurance” as a gotcha when nobody in this entire thread has at any point said that the DEA is directly involved in health insurance. It is like loudly claiming victory that you have established that doctors aren’t in charge of trimming the hedges in your neighborhood
No, I'm pointing out that people like yourself are unable to recognize (willfully) government interference resulting in negative outcomes with the government interference you champion. Does it hurt to have this level of cognitive dissonance?
"Yes, the government is responsible for these awful things. But if it was responsible for even more things, it would be different and good, because someone told me it would!"
> No, I'm pointing out that people like yourself are unable to recognize (willfully) government interference resulting in negative outcomes with the government interference you champion.
No you’re not. You’re not doing that at all.
You’re just posting “Hey, you know that thing nobody said? What if you believed this thing I just made up? Even though I know you did not, you would surely look pretty silly if you also came up with this wrong thing that I thought of in my head. Just picture what a buffoon you would be if you said something completely different than what you said. I am imagining you doing that and it is very pleasing to me. You look quite the fool and I quite the razor-sharp wit in this scenario that never happened but I am envisioning anyway”
It is nonsense, quite literally gibberish. “What if we had an argument and I was right and you were wrong how would that feel” isn’t an argument or a point. It is a dream that you’ve decided to volunteer unprompted that you fantasize about.
It is like someone bringing up a new pair of running shoes and you interjecting with your thoughts about the eroticism of feet.
