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Please check: NeedyMeds
they posted links to many programs that offer free or reduced priced drugs. They also appear to have a discount card that offers deeper discounts than most others.
Here is the discount card: http://www.needymeds.org/drugcard/drugcard.pdf
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JanDrugs in Canada is where I but my meds. My daughter's copay for Yasmin for example here in the us is $50. I order 3 mo supply @Jan Drugs for $60. They also list the drugs and prices they stock. I never get generic from them.
It's fine for 99% of people, a very small number of people have a genetic risk factor that's easily tested for. Anyway, it's not a case of cheap or not cheap. The drug is what it is. You don't get a different one if you pay three times as much for it. Generics use different formulations than brands, so they aren't identical. Effectively close enough for me not to waste money on brands when generics are available, but if people want to spend extra on band only drugs it's no skin off my teeth.
It's fine for 99% of people, a very small number of people have a genetic risk factor that's easily tested for. Anyway, it's not a case of cheap or not cheap. The drug is what it is. You don't get a different one if you pay three times as much for it. Generics use different formulations than brands, so they aren't identical. Effectively close enough for me not to waste money on brands when generics are available, but if people want to spend extra on band only drugs it's no skin off my teeth.
I agree!!! and only very few are recalled, so going frugal on meds is really big!
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Originally Posted by Kaylee11
Another one I use is PPARX.org. That has helped me but needymeds.org is even better. I'm going to check them out more.
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JanDrugs in Canada is where I but my meds. My daughter's copay for Yasmin for example here in the us is $50. I order 3 mo supply @Jan Drugs for $60. They also list the drugs and prices they stock. I never get generic from them.
I just looked up one of my meds here that for some reason, my HMO plan charges me the highest co-pay on, and I pay $35 per month, or $105 for 90 day supply.
At JanDrugs, I would pay only $27 more for a 200 day supply.
I have been on the same dose of thyroid medicine for the past 19 years and with stable perfect throid function labs on that dose. Then, I went to get a refill and they said I had to get a refill from the doc. The pinheads that work in doctor's offices, you do not want to know, believe me. Not the doctors, the other people.
They said according to "policy" I had to get an appointment. I am between insurances so this cost me out of pocket $120. Then, I was told I had to gave a TSH (lab) drawn. That would have cost me $375. Then I had to have another $120 appointment. This all was to cost over $600 to get a frikking prescription refill.
I AM AN RN! I can manage my own case so now I do. I have become my own doctor. This is how I do it. I get my blood drawn at a walk-in lab, no doctor's order needed. TSH lab - cost - $37.00. Then, I order my pills from a pharmacy in England, no prescription needed. Cost: 7.5 cents per pill. I can check on the effectiveness of the drug by looking at my own lab after taking it for a while.
No wonder America's health care is the most expensive in the world!
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