You know something is broken with health care when your AAA card gives you a better deal on a prescription than your health insurance card does.
You know something is broken with health care when your AAA card gives you a better deal on a prescription than your health insurance card does.
I don’t see how that follows. The prescription in question was presumably less than the relevant copay. What you described is certainly unintuitive, but I don’t see how it’s symptomatic.
I’m not claiming that health care isn’t broken, simply questioning the relevance of what you described to such a determination.
It’s more that I would expect that a health insurance company would be able to get me a better deal than an automobile association could. As you surmised, the issue is more that the copay system of prescription payments doesn’t make as much sense when the full retail cost of the prescription is very close to the copay.