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Re: LCLiving post# 5648

Friday, 09/22/2006 10:13:08 AM

Friday, September 22, 2006 10:13:08 AM

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FYI - here's a small tidbit on Getting drugs from Canada.

The big savings in getting drugs from Canada come from buying brand-name/non-generic drugs. It is pretty much just as cost effective getting gen. drugs here in the US. What the Canadian's did is tell the Drug companies that you will supply your drug for "X" amount of dollars or we will say the heck with your patents and do it ourselves (because they are another country they can theoretically do that). As you noticed Wal-Mart/Target cut their Generic Pricing down - they did not cut their Brand-Name down. If a logical person can save $30 a script on their Brand name drugs, but only save 4 or 5 bucks on there Generics, to me I feel that I would stay where I can save the most at once. Most gen's only cost about 10$ max. depending on what it is. - well the one's I take anyway. I'm sure not all are like that, but as you know there are exceptions to every rule. Anyway - back to my fuzzy logic - I like to keep my prescriptions at the same store (and I feel most people do) - the pharmacist(s) have a better idea of what you're taking and if any of the med's from one doc antagonize's/synergist's with another they should pick up on it. So anyhow if someone has 2 Brand-Name only available 'scripts with a savings of 20-30 bucks a month - that would require someone to have 6-7 more generic scripts assuming each Generic Costs 10$ (6$ * 6 or 7 = 36 & 42 respectively.) But this is only my fuzzy math and logic so take it for what it's worth. Which is probably not much.


O/T: BTW - I enjoyed last week Jr. Hope your dad didn't get in trouble did he?

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