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| gehzumteufel |
Walgreens marks up generics by 975%
On the Freakonomics blog, Stephen Dubner (co-author of the wonderful Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything) digs into the pricing on generic drugs and finds that the main-street pharmacies mark up their offerings by 975 percent!
Even once you factor in the cost of buying a membership at Costco and Sam’s Club, the price differences were astounding. Here are the prices he found at Houston stores for 90 tablets of generic Prozac:
Walgreens: $117
Eckerd: $115
CVS: $115
Sam’s Club: $15
Costco: $12
Those aren’t typos. Walgreens charges $117 for a bottle of the same pills for which Costco charges $12.
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| tubularbills |
| most insurance companies offer discounts or cheap co-pays for generics. so regardless of what walgreens/cvs charge for them, you can still get it cheap w/ your insurance company. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
most insurance companies offer discounts or cheap co-pays for generics. so regardless of what walgreens/cvs charge for them, you can still get it cheap w/ your insurance company. |
agreed but this also causes insurances to inflate. |
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| inconspicuous |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
most insurance companies offer discounts or cheap co-pays for generics. so regardless of what walgreens/cvs charge for them, you can still get it cheap w/ your insurance company. |
a good number of them don't do instant discounts, and force people to pay full retail & wait for a reimbursement, though. |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
agreed but this also causes insurances to inflate. |
exactly, some company is still getting paid an inflated price.
im in the wrong business. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
exactly, some company is still getting paid an inflated price.
im in the wrong business. |
lol ive been saying that for years. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
exactly, some company is still getting paid an inflated price.
im in the wrong business. |
i thought porn paid good? :wtf::eek: |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
i thought porn paid good? :wtf::eek: |
inflated PRICE....not inflated PENIS!
..thats all I got :-/ |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
inflated PRICE....not inflated PENIS!
..thats all I got :-/ |
LOL good times. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
inflated PRICE....not inflated PENIS!
..thats all I got :-/ |
ROFL |
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