So you walk into a pharmacy to get your prescription. The pharmacist hands you your drugs and tells you that your copayment for the medicine is $125. What she doesn’t tell you is that if you opted to just pay for the prescription in cash, you’d only be paying $100. Why? Because in many states pharmacists operate under ‘gag clauses’ that prohibit them “from telling customers that they could save money by paying cash for prescription drugs rather than using their health insurance.” (Now you need another prescription; this one to lower your blood pressure because you’re so frustrated with this broken and ridiculous system.) Robert Pear in the NYT: Why Your Pharmacist Can’t Tell You That $20 Prescription Could Cost Only $8.