So at the beginning of the year, my family switched to a new health insurance plan.

And I've got this prescription I take. I get three months worth of it at a time.

And in February, it was time to renew. The drugstore texted me. They had it.

I called the check, got the robot voice.

There's one prescription here for Daniel.

And some news.

The out-of-pocket cost is $720.69.

And that's ready for pickup.

I was like, what?

This is an old time generic drug.

I'm used to paying like 15 bucks.

Would you like me to repeat that?

I was like, maybe you better. I want this on tape.

The outer pocket cost is 700. I was also like, yeah, I'm just going to bring my new insurance

card over to the drugstore and hope that clears things up. And it did. The copay was $0. That

is some good new insurance right there. And as I walked out of the drug store, I was like,

what was that all about? I pulled up a site called

GoodRX on my phone, a doctor friend of mine, sometimes recommends it to people whose

prescriptions cost a lot, and what I found there was weird. I punched in the name of the

medication and my zip code and it showed me prices from a bunch of different

places. Drugstore chains like CVS and Walgreens, big box stores like Costco and Walmart,

local supermarkets with pharmacy counters.

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