Can I make a suggestion to you? When some political blowhard on TV or the radio tells you something, don’t automatically believe it. Do your research to learn the facts for yourself, OK?
You see, pundits and politicians lie. And they hope you’ll be so accepting of their carefully crafted talking points that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Drug costs'
It’s not a “free market” — Big Pharma has bought and paid for it
June 24th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Drug costs · Pharmaceutical companies · Prescription drugs
“99 Ways to Save Money on Your Prescription Drugs” available on Scribd
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
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!
Tags: Drug costs · Drug discount cards · Low-cost drugs · Online pharmacies · Prescription drugs · Wal-Mart drug plan
Want your share of the billions Big Pharma has stolen from you? GLWT
June 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments
You probably didn’t see it in the news — since it got about 1/1000th of the coverage received by Sarah Palin spatting with David Letterman and Spencer and Heidi quitting “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here” — but a noteworthy legal settlement occurred last week.
A major drug wholesaler, McKesson Corp., and two [...]
Tags: Drug costs · Pharmaceutical companies · Prescription drugs
How to apply for prescription drug help from Social Security
June 9th, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Drug costs · Healthcare solutions · Medicare Part D · Prescription drugs
Can’t afford your prescription drug copays? The Patient Advocate Foundation can help
May 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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. [...]
Tags: Drug costs · Healthcare solutions · Prescription drug insurance · Prescription drugs
Healthcare, prescription drugs, and the plight of the self-employed
April 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments
I recently came across a remarkable blog rant by a man named Jim Thornton, a competitive swimmer at age 56. Under a list of his latest swimming times, he shared the story of some of the struggles he’d recently been having with healthcare and prescription drug costs.
An excerpt:
Our health insurance went up [...]
Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug costs · Drug reimportation · Pharmaceutical marketing · Prescription drugs
Big Pharma ignores down economy, raises prescription drug prices — again
April 21st, 2009 · No Comments
The AARP’s annual report on prescription drug prices, released last week, reveals that pharmaceutical manufacturers raised prices on the most popular brand-name drugs by 8.7 percent in 2008 — well over twice the rate of inflation.
According to the AP:
AARP’s report highlighted growing costs of what it said were the 219 most widely used brand-name drugs.
Among [...]
Tags: Drug costs · Pharmaceutical companies · Prescription drugs
Laid off? Here are six tips for managing your healthcare costs
April 14th, 2009 · No Comments
With pink slips being handed out left and right these days, it’s time to get practical and think about how to manage your insurance and other medical costs in the event you are laid off. Here are six tips:
1. See if you can get on your spouse’s plan. If your spouse has health [...]
Tags: Drug costs · Prescription drugs
Why small pharmacies can’t compete on price
April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
In researching Wal-Mart’s impending battle with PBMs like Express Scripts and Medco, which are aggressively pushing consumers to order drugs by mail rather than at retailers like Wal-Mart, I came across some interesting data on pharmacy costs at the blog of Dr. Adam J. Fein, an economist who studies the pharmacy supply chain.
Dr. Fein referenced [...]
Tags: Drug costs · Prescription drugs
Bye-bye, drugstores! Will mail-order prescriptions become mandatory for employer-based health plans?
March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment
We wrote recently about the rapidly growing business of mail-order pharmacies run by the pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) who work with employer-based insurance providers.
It’s been a trend with no small hint of irony. You see, when Canadian mail-order pharmacies came on the scene in the ’90s, representatives of Big Insurance and Big [...]
Tags: Drug costs · Low-cost drugs · Prescription drug insurance · Prescription drugs


