Danny Jones

And we've got to drain the tank.

And the only way to drain the tank is to take yourself out of that ecosystem.

So all the way back to what is the starting point?

So everybody nowadays, candidly like 90, I think it's 90 plus percent of Americans get their healthcare through their employer.

And what that means is you get your insurance through your employer.

And so these insurance companies are driving your healthcare experience.

They're deciding what drug you get, when you get it and how you get it.

And so as a retail pharmacy, this is why I had to move to cash pay.

your grandma would come in and I could sell her Metformin for $2 for a whole month supply.

Metformin cost me a dollar for a whole month supply.

And I'm just, I'm doing simple math.

I think it's really like $2 and $5, but whatever.

Let's just say it's about a 50% markup in a cash pay market.

As soon as she tells me she has Blue Cross Blue Shield, or even if it's Medicare, Medicaid, those programs are controlled by private payers, by the PBMs.

That's all outsourced.

So even our governmental payer programs are controlled by the big conglomerates.

they have a gag clause that says it is not i'm not legally allowed to tell your grandma that her cash pay price is two dollars i swipe the card and it tells me ten dollars and i have to collect a ten dollar copay on a two dollar drug i don't get that additional nine dollars the insurance company takes all that money and i get like 10 cents and they get all the profits

And so fucking scam.

Yeah.

So you're paying every month for these treatments.