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eDrugSearch.com is Sponsoring Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makover Today!

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Wow, I’m so honored to meet and have eDrugSearch.com sponsor Dave Ramsey’s “Total Money Makeover” Live Event at the Freeman Coliseum today!

My wife and I were able to talk with Dave Ramsey last night at the sponsor’s dinner and let me tell you, it was a [...]

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The value of comparison shopping: an illustration

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A newspaper in Cleburne, Texas, outside Dallas, has published an excellent illustration of a point we’ve been making since we launched eDrugSearch.com: it’s well worth the effort to comparison shop for prescription drugs. An excerpt from the article:

Seven local pharmacies were contacted in an effort to discover what an [...]

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Study: Prescription drugs cost more in poor neighborhoods

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One of the biggest advantages of shopping for prescription drugs online is price transparency, which empowers the consumer to easily find the best price among available options.

As healthcare consumers well know, it is very difficult to comparison shop among brick-and-mortar pharmacies, because pharmacies typically don’t advertise their prices for prescription drugs [...]

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Consumer Reports study: Comparison shopping for prescription drugs saves big bucks

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From CNBC:

“A national price study conducted by Consumer Reports and led by Tod Marks showed just how widely prices can vary on the same drugs in pharmacies throughout the country. The survey found that the prices of four particular prescription drugs can vary by as much as $340, and [...]

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eDrugSearch.com tops 100,000 drug listings

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We’re very proud to have upgraded our comparison shopping engine to now include more than 100,000 real-time drug listings from our 36 member pharmacies. That’s up from 30,000 listings when we launched in January 2007.

Two big reasons for the increase: we’ve added more pharmacies, and we’ve updated our backend to make it much [...]

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How do you know you can trust an online retailer?

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eDrugSearch.com was founded on the premise that it can be difficult to know which online retailers you can trust — particularly when the product is prescription medications, and you are comparison shopping for the best price.

It’s not worth saving a few dollars (or even a lot of dollars) to risk being ripped off [...]

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Comparison shopping engines always looking for a better equation

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Saul Hansell at the New York Times has written an interesting piece on Zillow, the real estate valuation site that is now getting into mortgage comparison shopping. What I found most intriguing is how Hansell characterized his views on comparison shopping engines generally:

I’ve been in love with the potential of online services [...]

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HealthPricer.com: Buyer beware

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One of the things I’ve learned since I began blogging about health and medicine in November 2006 is that online discussion and debate helps people make better decisions. As I’ve become involved in the Health 2.0 movement, I’ve reached the much larger conclusion [...]

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