Insurance approved the drug — just not that one, or that dose, or for this diagnosis, or in this decade. The formulary is a menu where everything good is quietly marked 'market price.'
send this to anyone who's fought a formulary
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Restrictive formularies and step-therapy limit which drugs/doses clinicians can prescribe; this satirizes the administrative system, not patients.
Well-established healthcare-system satire (formulary/step therapy); no clinical claim to verify.
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