Stan

Do you think cost is really kind of a driver for a lot of these, the problems that we're dealing with as it relates to medications?

But let, all right, so I gotta talk about health insurance a little bit here.

So, okay, for those of us who are a little on the older side, we have this open enrollment period, okay, for health insurance, okay?

All right, just stay with me for a second here.

All right, so yesterday, I'm talking to my health insurance agent who helps, you know, to decide which health plan

I, you know, I should, I should be on.

And guess what?

One of the key questions that he asked me was that Stan, what medications are you on?

Okay.

So, you know, so I tell him that, you know, the medications, you know, so I'm on a thyroid medication and I'm on a statin medication, et cetera.

Okay.

His response was,

when I told him the medications was this, oh, okay, that one's generic, you're okay.

Okay, that one's generic, you're okay.

All right, that one, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, okay?

All right, so to be honest with you, okay, I'm okay with that.

And because that way, you know, when I go to my pharmacy, you know, everything is copacetic, right?

But what if they aren't?

What if they aren't generic, okay?

And what's underlying all of this is confusion, cost, which we've kind of talked about already, but this whole thing of linking the medications that you are on or you need with