RIPOFF drug prices.

[powderman]

Pattys ins runs out the end of this month so we are shopping around for best cash prices. The Plavix she takes is essential, we did find temp help with 5 of the most expensive ones out of 12.

They've been charging Medicaid for the generic at $234 a month for 30 pills. I told em I needed their lowest cash price and they said it would be $160. She told me to call Kroger because she THOUGHT they were cheaper and they would match their price. We called Kroger and walmart. Both places are $45 for a mo supply. A $190 difference?? Patty chkd another place and found it for $20. The markup on drugs is ridiculous. POWDERMAN

[Ranger99]

too many have found ways to rip
the system (our tax dollars)
lots of medicare dental clinics here local
for the illegals to get free dental and ortho
for the anchor kids. here close, there's a
dozen dental clinics, maybe 18 title loan
companies, and 2 grocery stores, only 1
of which doesn't blast music on loudspeakers
in the parking lot, and 3 halfway houses.


oh, 12-15 custom wheel shops to get big
ugly wheels for your crown vic or impala


1 walgreens drugstore

[blind ear]

Food and fuel? And the Fed said that inflation hasn't started yet. ear

[GeneRector]

   Howdy! For those that do not have prescription drug coverage, there are discount cards available for free off the internet. Just print the card on your printer, then present it to the pharmacy with your next refill or new Rx. Just do a search for prescription discount card.
Always, Gene
 
 

[Graybeard]

Last time I was at the drug store I picked up two medications. My cost on them was $8.62 and $2.21. My insurance saved me $231.27 and $51.76 respectively. Were it not for my insurance there is no way I could afford all the medications me and Faye take. She doesn't take nearly as many as me I'm up to about 15 different prescriptions I have to take daily and some up to four times a day.

[FourBee]

Last time I was at the drug store I picked up two medications. My cost on them was $8.62 and $2.21. My insurance saved me $231.27 and $51.76 respectively. Were it not for my insurance there is no way I could afford all the medications me and Faye take. She doesn't take nearly as many as me I'm up to about 15 different prescriptions I have to take daily and some up to four times a day.

Same here. I spend about $40 a month, and my insurance covers my back.
Now my brother in California takes a run through Arizona down to Mexico once a year, and gets all his prescriptions at one time (EL CHEAPO).

[oldandslow]

Last time I was at the drug store I picked up two medications. My cost on them was $8.62 and $2.21. My insurance saved me $231.27 and $51.76 respectively. Were it not for my insurance there is no way I could afford all the medications me and Faye take. She doesn't take nearly as many as me I'm up to about 15 different prescriptions I have to take daily and some up to four times a day.

I know what you mean but it's my wife that is the pill hog. If it wasn't for our drug plan we would be broke every month just paying for her prescriptions. All I take is a low dose generic colestrol pill and it is dirt cheap with the drug plan. One of her's is $92 for a three month supply but that is still very low compared to what it would be with no plan. It also saves us a minimum of one blood test a month and not having to drive the miles to get them done. Another benefit is she can eat what she wants with this drug instead of having to be careful about certain foods that can screw up her blood.

[FPH]

Meds would be a lot cheaper if the companies quit selling them so cheap to 3rd world nations.

[FourBee]

For years I've been taking a moderately priced cholesterol drug, and this last insurance update the insurance company dropped it and suggested one that is outrageously high priced.  My Doctor says  he's had the same problem with several of his patients.  So he's put me on a symvastatin that is doing well, and it's inexpensive too.

[ChungDoQuan]

Part of that is because Medicare and Medicaid are not allowed to negotiate prices with suppliers, so the drug companies fix prices 'way high. That's why they get to sell Normal Saline (.9% sterile salt water) to hospitals for $900+ per liter. (Why someone doesn't start a company offering salt water for $100 a liter, or even $20 a liter, I don't know...)

[FPH]

Part of that is because Medicare and Medicaid are not allowed to negotiate prices with suppliers, so the drug companies fix prices 'way high. That's why they get to sell Normal Saline (.9% sterile salt water) to hospitals for $900+ per liter. (Why someone doesn't start a company offering salt water for $100 a liter, or even $20 a liter, I don't know...)

I sure as heck did not pay 900.00 per liter for D-5-W or saline, and I went through a boat load of it.

[Anna]

The problem with meds is there are to many middlemen in it. Dentist are the worse, everything
anymore has to be a $3,000.00 dollar crown.
They will hardly talk to you about a filling. They whisk in and out between patients like its a cake walk.
No wonder when a local economy is going south the dentist are the first to go.
But a toothache is the worse pain you can experience next to labor.
And they know that so these crooks try to get you over a barrel. People are ordering Denseal
Radiopaque glass ionomer online from Canada. If the bacteria in a bad tooth can't get air to
aggravate the nerve it dies. No more toothache.
A simple mixture of zinc oxide and eugenol will do the same thing its what dentist used in fillings
for over 100 years. And you can get this stuff at Walgreens.

I didn't tell you guys this stuff did i? 

[goodshot]

        You are an amazing lady miss Anna.
        Paix et Benediction

[Anna]

I know a lot of other things too. And what I know is not hocus pokus its what these drug company's
based their research on. Did you know that simple aspirin comes from the bark of aspen trees?
Or that eye infections are treated with a mixture of rosé pedals?
Or how about a kidney or bladder infection that can be resolved with ordinary cranberry juice?
Most of this stuff came from Native Americans, but they get little credit from knowing it.

[FPH]

I know a lot of other things too. And what I know is not hocus pokus its what these drug company's
based their research on. Did you know that simple aspirin comes from the bark of aspen trees?
Or that eye infections are treated with a mixture of rosé pedals?
Or how about a kidney or bladder infection that can be resolved with ordinary cranberry juice?
Most of this stuff came from Native Americans, but they get little credit from knowing it.

You mean the bark of a Willow tree.....yes.

[FourBee]

Well; I've had toothaches.  Only thing worse was a Kidney stone.  Now that will put a man on his knees. 

[Anna]

I know a lot of other things too. And what I know is not hocus pokus its what these drug company's
based their research on. Did you know that simple aspirin comes from the bark of aspen trees?
Or that eye infections are treated with a mixture of rosé pedals?
Or how about a kidney or bladder infection that can be resolved with ordinary cranberry juice?
Most of this stuff came from Native Americans, but they get little credit from knowing it.

You mean the bark of a Willow tree.....yes.

No Aspen,thus its name aspirin.Willow will do the same thing they both produce the same chemical.
But so does common dogwood.

[FPH]

No, it is Willow...Salicylic acid......but that's not the source of the Salicylic acid anymore.....Salicylic acid (from Latin salix, willow tree, from the bark of which the substance used to be obtained) .

[Anna]

Sphagnum peat moss as it rots produces a very powerful topical antiseptic.
Copper kills fungus infections.
Borax stops bleeding.
Honeysuckle juice in a tea stops diarrhea and helps the body retain moisture.
Sulfur cauterizes wounds with out burning.
Vinegar hydrates people who are mortally wounded. Water can kill them. 



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[FPH]

Sphagnum peat moss as it rots produces a very powerful topical antiseptic.
Copper kills fungus infections.
Borax stops bleeding.
Honeysuckle juice in a tea stops diarrhea and helps the body retain moisture.
Sulfur cauterizes wounds with out burning.
Vinegar hydrates people who are mortally wounded. Water can kill them. 



Want more?

Has nothing to do with you being incorrect about Aspen and Aspirin.....address the subject.

[FPH]

[size=-1]The father of modern medicine was Hippocrates, who lived sometime between 460 B.C and 377 B.C. Hippocrates was left historical records of pain relief treatments, including the use of powder made from the bark and leaves of the willow tree to help heal headaches, pains and fevers.

Easy  to look up if you need to convince yourself.
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[FourBee]

When I dehorned cattle I used a sulphur clotting powder to stop the bleeding.
Aspen for many a year was the source for Asprin.  Ain't no tellin what they put in them pills nowdays, maybe even poppy petals.

[Anna]

Sphagnum peat moss as it rots produces a very powerful topical antiseptic.
Copper kills fungus infections.
Borax stops bleeding.
Honeysuckle juice in a tea stops diarrhea and helps the body retain moisture.
Sulfur cauterizes wounds with out burning.
Vinegar hydrates people who are mortally wounded. Water can kill them. 



Want more?

Has nothing to do with you being incorrect about Aspen and Aspirin.....address the subject.

I did, do a history lesson when this was first discovered. And who it was that was using it.
Willow didn't come into the picture until much later. Only because the tribes in the south used it.
Are you intending to bully me for what I learned in med school?
If that's wrong I suggest you take it up with them. How trivial you are its the chemical not the tree.
Dandelions also produce this substance but I guess that doesn't matter to you as long as you are
right. 

[FPH]

When I dehorned cattle I used a sulphur clotting powder to stop the bleeding.
Aspen for many a year was the source for Asprin.  Ain't no tellin what they put in them pills nowdays, maybe even poppy petals.

I've used plenty of clotting powder for castrating and dehorning.....show me a reference to aspirin and aspen.

[thumper113]

http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-244-ASPEN.aspx?activeIngredientId=244&activeIngredientName=ASPEN

Salicin is actually found in both trees.

[FPH]

Aspens and other members of the Populus genus contain salicylates, compounds related to aspirin. Leaves and leaf buds of aspens have been used to treat burns, irritations, aches, and swollen joints.[c

[Anna]

He knows so much I think he just likes to fight.


http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/2128736/2067366641/name/Bark+and+Aspirin.pdf

[FourBee]

When Willow is referred to in this manner it covers a wide variety of trees of the poplar family.

salicin concentrates in the inner bark of trees
and shrubs related to willows which include:

Populus tremuloides, : Quaking, Trembling or American Aspen
(northern & western North America) Populus grandidentata:
Bigtooth Aspen (eastern North America, south of P. tremuloides)
white willow/European willow (Salix alba)black willow/pussy willow
( Salix nigra )crack willow ( Salix fragilis )purple willow
( Salix purpurea) weeping willow ( Salix babylonica )

[Anna]

And don't leave out Mesquite beans! But Aspen was where the name came from we learned about it
from Native Americans. 

[FourBee]

Okay;
and whatever she said.