Re: Re: Need Medication.....but no insurance!!!!!!!!!!!!

January 17, 2006

Oh yea....if you have a prescription, try costco.com.

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package size

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(manufacturer)

30

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100

LEVOXYL 150MCG TABLET(JMI)

$13.19

$20.19

$37.39

You do not have to belong to costco to use their pharmacy. On line there is 2 dollar charge for shipping.

http://www.costco.com/Pharmacy/frameset.asp?trg=HCFrame.asp & hcban=Banner.asp & hctar=DrugInfo.asp & log= & rxbox= & fromscript=1 & qf= & srch=l & Drug=LEVOXYL & Article=LEVOXYL

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Re: Need Medication.....but no insurance!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm not sure where you are from, but if you have AAA auto club card, you are eligible for a discount on rx's. levoxyl is on the cheaper side, and the AAA can give you up to maybe 20% off. i recently started working as a pharmacy technician, and i see so many people come through with no insurance who have no idea about this discount, so i figured i'd mention it here. good luck! angie

January 17, 2006

Wow I have AAA and had no idea about this discount feature can you use it even if you have perscription discount also? That is very interesting I have the AAA plus card.. Thanks for the info. Hugssss Tinaangie wrote: i'm not sure where you are from, but if you have AAA auto club card, you are eligible for a discount on rx's. levoxyl is on the cheaper side, and the AAA can give you up to maybe 20% off. i recently started working as a pharmacy technician, and i see so many people come through with no insurance who have no idea about this discount, so i figured i'd mention it here. good luck! angie>> Help!> > I no longer have insurance and I need to take my medication?> Does anyone know where I can get my meds online?> > My doc just up'd my dose to 150MCG Levoxyl.> > Any leads will be greatly appreciated> Tina JJOIPPKOOUNUJOP'IUJK0--9UTINA MK-099-99\OP'[-0 I]9IKI099 U[

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January 17, 2006

Wow I have AAA and had no idea about this discount feature can you use it even if you have perscription discount also? That is very interesting I have the AAA plus card.. Thanks for the info. Hugssss Tinaangie wrote: i'm not sure where you are from, but if you have AAA auto club card, you are eligible for a discount on rx's. levoxyl is on the cheaper side, and the AAA can give you up to maybe 20% off. i recently started working as a pharmacy technician, and i see so many people come through with no insurance who have no idea about this discount, so i figured i'd mention it here. good luck! angie>> Help!> > I no longer have insurance and I need to take my medication?> Does anyone know where I can get my meds online?> > My doc just up'd my dose to 150MCG Levoxyl.> > Any leads will be greatly appreciated> Tina JJOIPPKOOUNUJOP'IUJK0--9UTINA MK-099-99\OP'[-0 I]9IKI099 U[

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January 17, 2006

Wow I have AAA and had no idea about this discount feature can you use it even if you have perscription discount also? That is very interesting I have the AAA plus card.. Thanks for the info. Hugssss Tinaangie wrote: i'm not sure where you are from, but if you have AAA auto club card, you are eligible for a discount on rx's. levoxyl is on the cheaper side, and the AAA can give you up to maybe 20% off. i recently started working as a pharmacy technician, and i see so many people come through with no insurance who have no idea about this discount, so i figured i'd mention it here. good luck! angie>> Help!> > I no longer have insurance and I need to take my medication?> Does anyone know where I can get my meds online?> > My doc just up'd my dose to 150MCG Levoxyl.> > Any leads will be greatly appreciated> Tina JJOIPPKOOUNUJOP'IUJK0--9UTINA MK-099-99\OP'[-0 I]9IKI099 U[

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January 18, 2006

I am from the land of taxes Pennsylvania. here they tax you if you breathe wrong.I am in the USA. I was just wondering if you can use the AAA card in conjunction with the perscription discount card., I know that sounds alittle greedy but i think the Government takes enough from us that we should get something back once in a while. TinaTina Hummel wrote: Wow I have AAA and had no idea about this discount feature can you use it even if you have perscription discount also? That is very interesting I have the AAA plus card.. Thanks for the info. Hugssss Tinaangie wrote: i'm not sure where you are from, but if you have AAA auto club card, you are eligible for a discount on rx's. levoxyl is on the cheaper side, and the AAA can give you up to maybe 20% off. i recently started working as a pharmacy technician, and i see so many people come through with no insurance who have no idea about this discount, so i figured i'd mention it here. good luck! angie>> Help!> > I no longer have insurance and I need to take my medication?> Does anyone know where I can get my meds online?> > My doc just up'd my dose to 150MCG Levoxyl.> > Any leads will be greatly

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January 18, 2006

I am from the land of taxes Pennsylvania. here they tax you if you breathe wrong.I am in the USA. I was just wondering if you can use the AAA card in conjunction with the perscription discount card., I know that sounds alittle greedy but i think the Government takes enough from us that we should get something back once in a while. TinaTina Hummel wrote: Wow I have AAA and had no idea about this discount feature can you use it even if you have perscription discount also? That is very interesting I have the AAA plus card.. Thanks for the info. Hugssss Tinaangie wrote: i'm not sure where you are from, but if you have AAA auto club card, you are eligible for a discount on rx's. levoxyl is on the cheaper side, and the AAA can give you up to maybe 20% off. i recently started working as a pharmacy technician, and i see so many people come through with no insurance who have no idea about this discount, so i figured i'd mention it here. good luck! angie>> Help!> > I no longer have insurance and I need to take my medication?> Does anyone know where I can get my meds online?> > My doc just up'd my dose to 150MCG Levoxyl.> > Any leads will be greatly

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January 18, 2006

I am from the land of taxes Pennsylvania. here they tax you if you breathe wrong.I am in the USA. I was just wondering if you can use the AAA card in conjunction with the perscription discount card., I know that sounds alittle greedy but i think the Government takes enough from us that we should get something back once in a while. TinaTina Hummel wrote: Wow I have AAA and had no idea about this discount feature can you use it even if you have perscription discount also? That is very interesting I have the AAA plus card.. Thanks for the info. Hugssss Tinaangie wrote: i'm not sure where you are from, but if you have AAA auto club card, you are eligible for a discount on rx's. levoxyl is on the cheaper side, and the AAA can give you up to maybe 20% off. i recently started working as a pharmacy technician, and i see so many people come through with no insurance who have no idea about this discount, so i figured i'd mention it here. good luck! angie>> Help!> > I no longer have insurance and I need to take my medication?> Does anyone know where I can get my meds online?> > My doc just up'd my dose to 150MCG Levoxyl.> > Any leads will be greatly

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January 18, 2006

I've read this before..it's enough to make you spit...their justification is that the high cost is to cover the expenses detailed in research and development, not only of that particular medication, but of others in the works..

What is not so generally known is that many of the 'newly patented' drugs are simple variations on existing medications and haven't involved in expenses to that degree, just the application for the patents, which, granted, are VERY expensive for drugs....

And even greater expense is their promotion... not just the commercial on TV and radio and magazines... but all the perks and 'incentives' offered to health care providers for pushing the 'drug of the week'.

I have a serious attitude about this.... I was started on Synthroid with the freebie tabs that my endo got from the drug rep that came by.... when I ran out of insurance she gave me brown paper bags full of those freebies to keep me going until I got insurance at my new job.... they had tons of the stuff that were passed out monthly for the docs to dole out for free.... as the only thyroid medication......

How do you think they are paying for those 'free samples'? Or the trips to Hawaii and Florida for the seminars... or the new cars.. or the computers... or the conventions that have about an hour of lectures while they are in that Hawaiian resort each day and the rest of the time they enjoy 'complimentary' entertainment, food, drinks....

Then you get to the pharmacy level, mentioned in your post... and the perceived discounts.... 1/2 the price of a name brand..... with a mark up on their cost of near triple digit profits....

and it's hard for some to understand the high price of insurance????

And... if that all isn't enough... Folks with a messed up thyroid.... We are considered the 'bread and butter disease'.. yep.. that's what they call it... why? Cuz they can mistreat us for decades and not actually kill us.... but in the mean time dump a couple of dozen drugs on us to help us with all the symptoms that we suffer from as a result of poor thyroid hormone levels, that they are DETERMINED have nothing to do with thyroid function.

They range from pain killers, to surgeries, to antidepressants.... you name it.... Yet if the root condition, improper thyroid function, were treated properly and diagnosed properly... none of these horrid symptoms would have us sitting in the dark at night wishing we were dead.

....stopping before I go off on an all out rant.....

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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:33:09 -0000 "jonnyblog" writes:

this might be helpful...COSTCO, read thisLet's hear it for Costco!! (This is just mind-boggling!) Make sure you read all the way past the list of the drugs. The woman that signed below is a Budget Analyst out of federal Washington, DC offices.Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost a lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We did a search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA. As we have revealed in past issues of Life Extension, a significant percentage of drugs sold in the United States contain active ingredients made in other countries. In our independent investigation of how much profit drug companies really make,we obtained the actual price of active ingredients used in some of the most popular drugs sold in America. The data below speaks for itself.Celebrex: 100 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $130.27Cost of general active ingredients: $0.60Percent markup: 21,712%Claritin: 10 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $215.17 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.71Percent markup: 30,306% Keflex: 250 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $157.39 Cost of general active ingredients: $1.88Percent markup: 8,372% Lipitor: 20 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $272.37 Cost of general active ingredients: $5.80Percent markup: 4,696% Norvasc: 10 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $188.29 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.14Percent markup: 134,493% Paxil: 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $220.27 Cost of general active ingredients: $7.60Percent markup: 2,898%

Prevacid: 30 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $44.77 Cost of general active ingredients: $1.01Percent markup: 34,136% Prilosec: 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $360.97 Cost of general active ingredients $0.52Percent markup: 69,417% Prozac: 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets) : $247.47 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.11Percent markup: 224,973% Tenormin: 50 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $104.47 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.13Percent markup: 80,362% Vasotec: 10 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $102.37 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.20Percent markup: 51,185% Xanax: 1 mg Consumer price (100 tablets) : $136.79 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.024Percent markup: 569,958% Zestril: 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets) $89.89Cost of general active ingredients $3.20Percent markup: 2,809 Zithromax: 600 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $1,482.19 Cost of general active ingredients: $18.78Percent markup: 7,892% Zocor: 40 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $350.27 Cost of general active ingredients: $8.63Percent markup: 4,059% Zoloft: 50 mgConsumer price: $206.87Cost of general active ingredients: $1.75Percent markup: 11,821%

Since the cost of prescription drugs is so outrageous, I thought everyone should know about this. Please read the following and pass it on. It pays to shop around. This helps to solve the mystery as to why they can afford to put a Walgreen's on every corner. On Monday night, Steve , an investigative reporter for Channel 7 News in Detroit, did a story on generic drug price gouging by pharmacies. He found in his investigation, that some of these generic drugs were marked up as much as 3,000% or more. Yes, that's not a typo.....three thousand percent! So often, we blame the drug companies for the high cost of drugs, and usually rightfully so. But in this case, the fault clearly lies with the pharmacies themselves. For example, if you had to buy a prescription drug, and bought the name brand, you might pay $100 for 100 pills. The pharmacist might tell you that if you get the generic equivalent, they would only cost $80, making you think you are "saving" $20. What the pharmacist is not telling you is that those 100 generic pills may have only cost him $10! At the end of the report, one of the anchors asked Mr. whether or not there were any pharmacies that did not adhere to this practice, and he said that Costco consistently charged little over their cost for the generic drugs. I went to the Costco site, where you can look up any drug, and get its online price. It says that the in-store prices are consistent with the online prices. I was appalled. Just to give you one example from my own experience, I had to use the drug, Compazine, which helps prevent nausea in chemo patients.I used the generic equivalent, which cost $54.99 for 60 pills at CVS. I checked the price at Costco, and I could have bought 100 pills for $19.89. For 145 of my pain pills, I paid $72.57. I could have got 150 at Costco for $28.08.I would like to mention, that although Costco is a "membership" type store, you do NOT have to be a member to buy prescriptions there, as it is a federally regulated substance. You just tell them at the door that you wish to use the pharmacy, and they will let you in. (this is true)I went there this past Thursday and asked them. I am asking each of you to please help me by copying this letter, and passing it into your own e-mail, and send it to everyone you know with an e-mail address.

January 18, 2006