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jjmorrisonon Benefits of a Lifestyle Business

Sounds great if you want to optimize for your personal happiness. But not a feasible way to really make an impact on the world. The world needs more of the latter IMHO.

jjmorrisonon Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Conferences

I could not agree more.

jjmorrisonon The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices

The new FDA head is actually very anti PBM, so he might be a force for good here.

http://www.drugchannels.net/2017/03/scott-gottliebs-radical-...

jjmorrisonon The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices

Just to provide more info - for a given pharmacy, Atorvastatin 20mg is $.0629 per pill, so $1.887 at cost. For most pharmacies the real cost is going the pharmacist filling the rx. An insurance company would probably reimburse <$5 and may or may not just make that the copay. $10 is way higher than pharmacies would charge for generic lipitor.

Also claiming: Avg. retail: $132.52 You save: 96%

Is the complete OPPOSITE of transparency. $132.52 might be a realistic price for branded Lipitor, but that's not at all what is being sold here.