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goodrx.com is the company blog at goodrx.com, writing about health and business. Since 2014, 108 different Hacker News readers have linked it 139 times, most often “Most Expensive Drugs in the U.S.”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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108HN people?
2014–2026first – last linked?
Most-linked posts?
- /healthcare-access/research/how-much-does-insulin-cost-compare-brands6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2022-04-01
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-12-01
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-03-30
- Most Expensive Drugs in the U.S.3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-28
- /adrenaclick2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-08-23
- /insulin-lispro2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-07
- /blog/how-much-does-insulin-cost-compare-brands/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-12
- Website/App to Compare Prescription Prices – GoodRx2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-24
- /blog/how-to-use-goodrx-with-high-deductible-health-plan-hsa/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-28
- /health-topic/sexual-health/free-condoms2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-24
What Hacker News says?
The first line treatment for strep throat is penicillin or amoxicillin. Z-pack (Azithromycin) would typically only be used in case of a penicillin allergy, or maybe resistant bacteria. https://www.goodrx.com/blog/z-packs-still-good-for-infection...
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on “Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%”Submitted Most Expensive Drugs in the U.S. as a story · 35 points
HN discussionUmmm… no? It’s cheap in Australia because it’s generic. It’s generic now in the US too, and guess what? It’s $40 per month in the US. https://m.goodrx.com/truvada?sort_type=popularity
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on “Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine”Submitted Website/App to Compare Prescription Prices – GoodRx as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGoodRx | Information Security Engineers | Santa Monica, CA | Full Time | Onsite | https://www.goodrx.com About GoodRx: GoodRx is America’s leading prescription price transparency platform. GoodRx helps consumers save up to 80% on their medications by delivering prices and available discounts at nearly every pharmacy in the U.S. In many cases, consumers can save money by using GoodRx over their existing medical insur…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted Will There Ever Be a Treatment for Rabies? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe "cash" price in the US is $142: https://www.goodrx.com/humalog?dosage=10ml-of-100-units-ml&f... (GoodRx doesn't have any direct user fees, they make money by understanding the stupid prescription drug system in the US) There's a generic that is $50 at several pharmacies.
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on “Open Insulin Foundation”Submitted Zolgensma is most expensive drug ($2.1m) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPrices vary also a ton from pharmacy to pharmacy. I recently discovered GoodRx ( https://goodrx.com/ ), which has been extremely helpful in minimizing prescription costs. * Not affiliated.
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on “Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time”Submitted How GoodRx Is Changing the Economics of Healthcare as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGenerics do work to lower prices, at least over time. I've been on two medications that, when started, their patents were about to expire. They still cost a small fortune, $700 to $1000/month on retail cost without insurance. Over the course of about 6 years, the generics were introduced and were also initially very expensive, but the competition gradually lowered prices and they're now sub-$100/month for the generi…
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on “The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive”Submitted We Need a Covid-19 Tracker – Here's how you do it with off the shelf tech as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor regulatory reasons, US drug list prices are completely detached from the actual price you end up paying (assuming you do a bit of research). See e.g. https://www.goodrx.com/hydroxychloroquine ($20 for 60x200mg)
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on “Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19”I understand that argument.I hadn't thought of the issue of insulin being a biologic, so true generics aren't likely, hence biosimilars. None of this justifies a 10x+ price increase on the same product over 20 years of course. By the way that same site had an interesting article breaking down costs normalized by insulin unit https://www.goodrx.com/blog/how-much-does-insulin-cost-compa... By that table and some assum…
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on “Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin”My understanding it that they are out of patent, but regulations make it hard for new players to enter the market. Since the number of companies making them are so limited, even the generics cost a lot. For example, Basaglar is a "generic" of Lantus, but it's still expensive. Here’s How to Save on Basaglar, the Expensive Lantus “Generic” https://www.goodrx.com/blog/basaglar-expensive-lantus-generi... > Basaglar cont…
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on “Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin”From https://www.goodrx.com/blog/flu-vs-coronavirus-mortality-and... 2017-2018 Flu 2018-2019 Flu COVID-19 as of August 27, 2020 Cases 45 million 35 million 5 million Deaths 61,000 34,157 180,000+ Further reading on how the flu and COVID-19 differ: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2020-2021.htm
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on “No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19”It’s hard to find hard data on this but this[0] seems to think 20-30% of plans will cover for obesity. The Lily and Novo Nordisk coupons seem to have quite short availability windows, according to several years of reading the various related subreddits. The cost difference here is real. 0: https://www.goodrx.com/insurance/health-insurance/weight-los...
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on “GLP-1s are breaking life insurance”It is legal in the US. In fact you can potentially make a decent bit of money if you're paid $70 per donation and can donate 100 times per year [0]. Don't know if it would be worth the time to travel to the centre and wait in line, for many HN users. [0] https://www.goodrx.com/health-topic/finance/how-much-donatin...
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on “So Much Blood”I use 2.5%+ version. Goodrx doesn't always have coupons. https://www.goodrx.com/diclofenac-sodium?form=tube-of-gel&do...
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on “Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows”https://www.goodrx.com/voltaren-gel $60-100, maybe you meant $120
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on “Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows”GoodRx | San Francisco/Los Angeles | Full-time GoodRx helps Americans find access to convenient and affordable healthcare. We're looking for a strong product manager to help us take our content efforts to the next level. This role will work closely with research, SEO, data, UX and more as we build and deliver new types of online health content and tools. There's a lot of excitement around this initiative internally…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”GoodRx | San Francisco/Los Angeles/Remote | Full-time GoodRx helps Americans find access to convenient and affordable healthcare. Hey all! GoodRx is hiring for many roles, including: 1) Senior (technical) SEO manager with in-house experience: https://jobs.lever.co/goodrx/85a82117-81ee-4ff8-aa17-1e48767... 2) Senior BI manager to join the SEO team: https://jobs.lever.co/goodrx/6753e321-d3a1-49e9-9996-0a37520... We ha…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Yes, up to 15 mg. Maintenance levels at 5, 10, and 15. If you cannot tolerate a maintenance level you can still get it, but insurance will not cover it ($1000/mo rather than $15/mo.) This is not an unreasonable situation. https://www.goodrx.com/zepbound/dosage
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on “GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)”No, they mean "Desoxyn", literal D-Methamphetamine. GoodRx hilariously has great meth coupons: https://m.goodrx.com/desoxyn
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on “Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s most innovative drug lord”GoodRx estimates cash prices (they are the PBM for the transaction, not insurance). They say $109 at a couple places: https://www.goodrx.com/adrenaclick?drug-name=adrenaclick&for...
on “FDA approves first generic version of EpiPen”Free condoms are widely available. https://www.goodrx.com/health-topic/sexual-health/free-condo...
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on “In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All”https://www.goodrx.com/basaglar $250 for five 3ml at 100 units/ml (1500 units total). https://www.goodrx.com/toujeo $324 for three 1.5mL at 300 units/ml (1350 units total). https://www.goodrx.com/lantus $357 for five 3ml at 100 units/ml (1500 units total).
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on “US Insulin prices 8 times higher than in other nations”You only covered the bolus requirements. You also need a basal insulin for Type-1 diabetes (unless you're on an insulin pump, which is an entirely different class of expense), so something like Tresiba ($505) ( https://www.goodrx.com/tresiba ) or Lantus ($357). Still not $1300/mo, but your price is also using temporary rebates and coupons, which certainly aren't always available.
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on “US Insulin prices 8 times higher than in other nations”Depending on how many units/day you need. There's a great website for finding low priced insulin: https://www.goodrx.com/humalog $68.38 for five 3ml cartridges of 100 units/ml. So if you need 100 units/day (that's on the high end), that's two weeks worth.
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on “US Insulin prices 8 times higher than in other nations”OK good data point. Is NovoRapid about the same as Novolog 70/30? 73 euro is about $86 which is about the same price as Wallgreens/RiteAid. CVS is more expensive. https://www.goodrx.com/novolog-70-30
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