{"id":9401,"date":"2025-05-18T21:55:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T03:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=9401"},"modified":"2025-05-19T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:36:26","slug":"is-your-uaw-prescription-drug-benefit-saving-you-any-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/is-your-uaw-prescription-drug-benefit-saving-you-any-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your UAW Prescription Drug Benefit Saving You Any Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is your UAW contract making your life better?\u00a0 If you or a member of your family takes a prescription drug or two what do you pay compared to what other Americans pay for their prescriptions? The chart below looks at the average co-payments and con-insurance for Americans.\u00a0 The average copay for generic drugs is $12 while brand name drugs carry an average copay of $36.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Table-9-6.png?w=698\" alt=\"Figure 9.6: Among Covered Workers With Prescription Drug Coverage, Average Copayments and Coinsurance, 2024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How does that compare with the prices in your negotiated contract? Let&#8217;s see.\u00a0 Below is the chart of your prescription benefit from Appendix A of the national agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/is-your-uaw-prescription-drug-benefit-saving-you-any-money\/screenshot_20250514-194216\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9402\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9402 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot_20250514-194216-678x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot_20250514-194216-678x1024.png 678w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot_20250514-194216-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot_20250514-194216-768x1159.png 768w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot_20250514-194216.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you bought your prescription drug at retail the UAW negotiated price is $6 for generic and $12 for brand name drugs will you save any money?<\/p>\n<p>Just for fun let&#8217;s run some numbers.\u00a0 In this example your family takes two generic drugs and one brand name drug.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Average American drug costs:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Generic $12 x 2 drugs = $24<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Brand Name\u00a0 x 1\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$36<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Total Cost\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $60<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">UAW Negotiated Prescription Drug Benefit<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Generic $6 x 2 drugs =\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $12<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Brand Name x 1\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$12<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Total Cost\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$24<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Difference of just three prescriptions: $36!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Obviously, this may be a recurring savings for prescriptions that are part of a ongoing health program. There are additional savings from using the mail order program. I don&#8217;t know about you but that $36 savings per month, every month adds up&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/is-your-uaw-prescription-drug-benefit-saving-you-any-money\/calculator-428294_1280\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9403\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9403\" src=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/calculator-428294_1280-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/calculator-428294_1280-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/calculator-428294_1280-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/calculator-428294_1280-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/calculator-428294_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(image by jarmoluk @ Pixabay)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your UAW contract making your life better?\u00a0 If you or a member of your family takes a prescription drug or two what do you pay compared to what other Americans pay for their prescriptions? The chart below looks at the average co-payments and con-insurance for Americans.\u00a0 The average copay for generic drugs is $12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-9401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-contracts","tag-uaw-prescription-drug-benefit"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9409,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions\/9409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}