Pharmacies can feel like casinos sometimes—you walk in expecting one number at checkout and end up staring at a completely different one. Prescription discount cards are often pitched as magic tickets to cheaper medicine, but they don’t always play fair. In fact, sometimes they make drugs cost more than if no card was used at all.
That twist shocks people at the register, and it raises one big question: how can a card that promises savings actually inflate the bill? The answer lies in the tangled web of middlemen, fees, and smoke-and-mirror pricing strategies behind the scenes.
