The eye-glazing scam of Medicare drug plans

Six tiers and none of them mean a fucking thing.

6 min readMay 4, 2022

A craps table surrounded by excited gamblers; amid the casino chips are various pharma tablets, some spilling out of a pill bottle. Image: Chris Martin (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/cjmartin/11331819423 CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Christine Dela Cerna (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Various_pills.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article erroneously claimed Simon Lovell had passed away; I misremembered my contribution to a 2015 medical fundraiser for Mr Lovell as a contribution to a funeral expenses fundraiser. My sincere apologies to Mr Lovell (and I’m delighted to learn I was wrong!).

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