The eDrugSearch.com e-book “99 Ways to Save Money on Your Prescription Drugs, 2009 Edition” is now available on Scribd, where you can see a preview of the book’s first 10 pages before purchasing.
Check it out and start saving on your prescription drugs now!

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As readers of this blog know, we have been following the proposed Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act carefully as it wends its way through Congress. So far, neither the House nor Senate versions of the bill have gotten very far since their introduction in early March, although there has been some talk [...]

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You are probably aware by now of Medicare Part D, which provides a prescription drug benefit to seniors. But did you know that you also may be able to qualify for extra help from Social Security?
If you are covered by Medicare but have limited income and resources, Social Security may step up to pay [...]

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You probably didn’t know it, but May is officially Older Americans Month. Since many members of the eDrugSearch.com community are seniors, and we are keenly aware of their struggles in managing their prescription drug costs, we thought we would take this opportunity to share some facts about the older population that might surprise you, [...]

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I read an op-ed in the Dallas Morning News last Thursday that really impressed me, giving me hope that true healthcare reform may be just around the corner.
The piece was co-written by Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas and Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa. Its purpose was to advocate the proposed Healthy Workforce [...]

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Copays used to be a reminder of how nice it was to have health insurance. Now, too often they are a reminder of how little insurance we really have.
Not long ago, copays for prescription drugs were almost universally small, flat fees — as little as $5, no matter how expensive the medication you required. [...]

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Since we are headquartered in San Antonio, eDrugSearch.com is located relatively close to ground zero in the current swine flu outbreak. The first H1N1 death in the United States was here in Texas, and today, Dr. Marcus Gitterle, a New Braunfels emergency medicine physician, is attracting significant attention after sending out a frightening internal [...]

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We’ve heard endless whining by Big Pharma and its water carriers in Congress about how President Obama’s plans to reduce prescription drug costs will all but destroy the U.S. pharmaceutical industry.
An investment analyst who covers the industry thinks otherwise.
Jason Napodano, in a report for Zacks Investment Research published earlier this month, writes:
When President Obama’s administration [...]

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As readers of this blog know, we sometimes grow weary of defending legitimate online pharmacies against those uninformed (and/or Big Pharma-funded) voices who enjoying tarring all online pharmacies with the same broad brush.
Yes, we know there is a big problem with rogue online pharmacies. That’s why we created eDrugSearch.com — to create a [...]

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We speculated last week that the big health insurance companies and their PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) may soon attempt to force employees toward mail-order drugs. It’s certainly a real possibility after the PBM Express Scripts began providing mail-order delivery as a default option for employer-based health plans.
As I predicted then:

1. Soon, all other PBMs [...]

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