Dr. Ronda Marie Chakolis-Hassan

If I use my insurance, I'm never going to get to my $6,000 deductible.

I'm going to use GoodRx and that same medication might be $40.

And again, so it's about understanding how things work.

I am just old enough to remember before Medicare Part D started.

I remember my grandparents and my grandfather had rheumatoid arthritis.

He had expensive medications.

I also remember talking to my parents and saying, hey, you know what?

You're gonna wanna be involved in this now.

You're gonna wanna understand the structure and financing of this.

You're gonna wanna know.

And at the time,

They didn't.

And then now we have these expensive drugs and what have you.

Again, there are a lot of variables we can't control.

We can't control like a lot of the politics, but the information is what it is.

And so this is the time where we can start saying, hey.

Irrespective of politics, tell me how my benefits actually work.

Tell me what a pharmacy benefit manager actually is.

Tell me what a rebate means when my pharmacy benefit manager company actually gets money back from a drug manufacturer to put things on formulary.

Tell me how they negotiate pricing.