What lengths is the health care plan for Utah public employees willing to go to to get more affordable medicines for its members?
That’s how far it is from Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, to Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. From drugs that cost, for example, $6,700 for a month’s supply to the same medicine that costs only $2,200.
The folks who run Utah’s PEHP, the nonprofit health insurance plan for public employees, put a pencil to it and determined that the system, and all the workers who pay into it, would be way ahead if the people who need expensive medications for some serious and long-term conditions flew to San Diego, drove across the border and bought their drugs at a clinic that, PEHP has determined, is as safe and trustworthy as any medical facility in the U.