A clinic receptionist tells a patient two eye drops cost $259 and $1,200 without insurance. The patient skips the expensive one and asks the doctor for cheaper alternatives, showing how U.S. drug prices force people to choose between medications.
Hello. Hi. Date of birth? Uh, September 3rd. Last name? Anderson. Uh, do you have insurance to give us? No. Okay. Is there any allergies to medicine? No. It looks like there's an eye drop in there that we have not done. Uh, we can work on. I don't know if it's something that we have, but we can look into it, but it looks like it's really costly, so you're probably not gonna want to have this one without insurance. Snack. Oh my God, $259 for the eye drops. Yep. How much is the steroids? $1,200. Okay, yeah, let's, uh, forget the eye drops for now. You can let your doctor know that. Okay, please. Yeah, that is so expensive. They might do something else. $1,256. There you go. Thanks.
