Mediconnect (10/10/26)

You know, we've been doing this for a while now.

I'm talking like we're pushing towards that 10th year, meaning decade.

And one of the things that always seems to be the big ticket item, and if anybody has any questions about this topic, feel free, anything, Medicare, now's the time to get on the line.

They'll get busy.

All of our lines are available.

So if you want something answered, now's the time to call 866-391-1020.

It's always the cost of prescription drug prices.

Why is that still, even the donut hole, all that stuff that we went through, why is it still such a big deal?

That is a great question.

And that is the part of Medicare that is still very much the wild, wild west.

There are very little guardrails in place for how insurance companies want to tier their medication.

And what we're seeing because of the after effects of the donut hole going away.

So I want to be clear with the audience listening in right now.

When the donut hole was closed, which again is good for Medicare subscribers, that's something good that happened in Medicare.

Now it's time to pay for it.

So the way that it's being paid for is insurance companies are moving people's medications around to have people pay more at the pharmacy for what used to be a $0 cost or a very low copay.

Now they're moving it around to a different tier to have more people Pay into the fact that the donut hole is now gone and the insurance companies have to cover that.

So when you lay it down like that, there's a lot of switcherooing going on right now, for lack of a better term.

A lot of reclassification, a lot of re-tiering.

And that is one of the areas where we're seeing people impacted the most going into 2027.

I was taking a statin or, I don't know, some other... generic medication, all of a sudden it goes from a tier one to a different tier.

And now I got to pay more money when I go to the pharmacy.

And yet the plan I've had all these years, it was a zero dollar copay.

And now I got to pay something for it.

In today's world, in today's market, that's devastating for a lot of people.

You know, we've been doing this for a while now.

I'm talking like we're pushing towards that 10th year, meaning decade.

And one of the things that always seems to be the big ticket item, and if anybody has any questions about this topic, feel free, anything, Medicare, now's the time to get on the line.

They'll get busy.

All of our lines are available.

So if you want something answered, now's the time to call 866-391-1020.

It's always the cost of prescription drug prices.

Why is that still, even the donut hole, all that stuff that we went through, why is it still such a big deal?

That is a great question.

And that is the part of Medicare that is still very much the wild, wild west.

There are very little guardrails in place for how insurance companies want to tier their medication.

And what we're seeing because of the after effects of the donut hole going away.

So I want to be clear with the audience listening in right now.

When the donut hole was closed, which again is good for Medicare subscribers, that's something good that happened in Medicare.

Now it's time to pay for it.

So the way that it's being paid for is insurance companies are moving people's medications around to have people pay more at the pharmacy for what used to be a $0 cost or a very low copay.

Now they're moving it around to a different tier to have more people Pay into the fact that the donut hole is now gone and the insurance companies have to cover that.

So when you lay it down like that, there's a lot of switcherooing going on right now, for lack of a better term.

A lot of reclassification, a lot of re-tiering.

And that is one of the areas where we're seeing people impacted the most going into 2027.

I was taking a statin or, I don't know, some other... generic medication, all of a sudden it goes from a tier one to a different tier.

And now I got to pay more money when I go to the pharmacy.

And yet the plan I've had all these years, it was a zero dollar copay.

And now I got to pay something for it.

In today's world, in today's market, that's devastating for a lot of people.