City of Toronto spends 1.9 million dollars on wood

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Why is that odd? The city does not likely employ experts in adjudicating and administering medical insurance, that's why businesses pay these companies.

If Joe Construction gets group insurance for his employees, is he telling them how many boner pills his employees may have? What limits are on pain killers? What limits are on special authorization medication? No, there are literally tens of thousands of drugs, each with different limits set on them. For example: some adjudicators limit triptans (migraine meds) to 12 tablets per month. When a pharmacy tries to process a claim and that limit has been reached, it will not go through, or the balance after the 12 will go to the patient. This is normal. Maybe the city should've audited it more closely after the fact, but that's hardly normal protocol. One would assume the insurer is following similar rules to other insurers.

It's odd because the thread was created to point out waste in the public sector.

[Northendzone]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Yes I read the plan restrictions. There were a few drugs on there, not just things like Viagra.

Not sure it's the same thing as cholesterol, people are genetically predisposed to high cholesterol and not treating it can result in early death.

My crack about your wife's plan was in jest.

Anyway as, a drug like viagra could indirectly keep someone at work as without it perhaps the employee goes into depression and the cost of an LTD claim can easily be 700,000 when you factor in cash payments, plan reserves, lost productivity and the cost of a replacement worker.

I took a look at the plan documents on google and there do not seem to be any limits surrounding viagra. My guess is that a couple of workers have figured this out and have likely made a little profit off of selling some drugs.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Northendzone

I took a look at the plan documents on google and there do not seem to be any limits surrounding viagra. My guess is that a couple of workers have figured this out and have likely made a little profit off of selling some drugs.

It's a cartel. An underground ring of old men getting cheap four-hour boners.

To be honest, it isn't as though you couldn't buy Viagra off the internet for cheap, if one was so inclined.