A woman insured by Anthem was paying $285 for a generic heart medication prescription. Recently, she was planning to go overseas for months and wanted to stock up on the medicine, but Anthem wouldn't give it to her because her previous prescription had not yet run out. So she went to Costco and bought the medicine. She was surprised that is cost only $40.

A spokesperson for the company that Anthem uses to manage its prescription drug program had no explanation for the price difference, other than the fact that Costo sometimes offers generic drugs for a lower price. No shit, sherlock. (In a June post, Cory gave the real reason: insurance companies have "successfully lobbied for gag rules that keep pharmacists" from being able to tell patients that it is often cheaper to buy medicines with cash.)

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