Ways To Get Your Prescriptions For Less

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn

We don't pay for our prescriptions here in bonny Scotland.

Correct,the English taxpayer pays for them.

a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn

Yes its true. In the Northeast here another one is :GOODRX. Up to 80% off. No rules, authorization.

Been using mine for 2 years.

If you have Amazon prime, you can get their drug discount card. I use Amazon pharmacy and often my drugs are less than $7 for 3 months supply- and that's shipped!

My last prescription was $112/mo. At Amazon pharmacy it was $7.40 for 3 months supply shipped.

Also, Publix has a lot of common drugs free. They keep a current list online.

a reply to: schuyler

Income Tax rates depend on the band you fall into.

Our NHS is mainly funded from general taxation and National Insurance contributions if that helps.

a reply to: glen200376

I pay my own tax glen200376 ta very much.

And you don't pay for prescriptions nether via cash monies, so you are also "them". LoL

The difference between Scotland and England where payment for prescriptions is concerned is down to the fact that both nations have devolved governments which oversee health matters differently in some areas.

Imho Scotland is rather more forward thinking in that department, and as you know leans more towards the left of the political spectrum.

There is also the distinct fact that our population density/numbers are not anywhere near that of our English cousins, allowing the nation to offer up such a service to her people.

You should also realise Scotland does not receive any sorts of additional funding from the UK by way of "the Barnett formula".

England does not pay, "We" pay for our own NHS and the services provided.

So i think you may find, and as in all things NHS concerned, you are incorrect.

a reply to: Ksihkehe

Not in the slightest.

You see nothing is completely free in this world as there is always a cost to be had in one form or another.

Everyone pays in Scotland via tax and national insurance contributions.

I like the "from beneath god's mighty kilt" part all the same.

a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn

If there's no sort of membership fee or anything, then I have to wonder what these companies are gaining from this.

I assume it must be about an easy way to collect all the data and storing it in one place. Then they sell it to who, the Government? Big Pharma? (or they were ones who created these companies, whichever...)

Maybe it's simpler for the drug companies to get the data this way, than to get it from all of the different pharmacies. Or maybe they don't/can't even get all of the information from the pharmacies: the specific details of who, where, how much.

With this, they know exactly how many, and exactly which pills, are going to each individual household. In the past, maybe they only really knew the general area, or the region where things were going, but now they get much more specific details.

a reply to: BrokenCircles

Maybe in some instances they are offering up generic drug types that do the same or perform a similar functions as opposed to the named brands that cost an arm and a leg, so as to offset and reduce the cost?

Just a guess all the same.

a reply to: andy06shake

That may be part of it, but I doubt that's all of it. Pharmacies sold lots of generics long before these companies existed. It wasn't a secret. As far as I know, everyone knows generics are pretty much the exact same thing, but way cheaper.

That's why the drug companies are constantly coming up with *NEW* drugs that they can make a fortune off of before they have to share the patent.

a reply to: BrokenCircles



Like i suggested BrokenCircles, just a shot in the dark.

originally posted by: Atsbhct
a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn

For people in the U.S. you can use the new online pharmacy set up by Mark Cuban. Big discounts on some drugs.

Anything Mark Cuban, he can shove up his butt.

a reply to: Antisocialist

He can shove 'anything' up there? He's a talented and gifted man. Everybody else has limits to what could fit in.

originally posted by: hadriana
If you have Amazon prime, you can get their drug discount card. I use Amazon pharmacy and often my drugs are less than $7 for 3 months supply- and that's shipped!

My last prescription was $112/mo. At Amazon pharmacy it was $7.40 for 3 months supply shipped.

Also, Publix has a lot of common drugs free. They keep a current list online.

I was using Publix. Nothing cheap in my Publix. And none of my meds are on the free list.

a reply to: BrokenCircles

I wondered the same thing. There is no membership, and all I did was show them a coupon on my phone that I did not have to download. The pharmacy has little info on me, and I did not have to sign a waiver or permission form of any kind.

The deal seems to be between the Pharmacy and the discount company. So yes, I am very curious about the whole thing. But I couldn't find anything untoward about it. Yet.

originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn
a reply to: BrokenCircles

I wondered the same thing. There is no membership, and all I did was show them a coupon on my phone that I did not have to download. The pharmacy has little info on me, and I did not have to sign a waiver or permission form of any kind.

The deal seems to be between the Pharmacy and the discount company. So yes, I am very curious about the whole thing. But I couldn't find anything untoward about it. Yet.

I wonder how it can happen, and the "good RX" people can even afford TV commercials. I'd be interested to see the business model attached to that.

I believe the pharmaceutical companies are still making money even with the discount. We know in the U.S. we are hugely overcharged for medical procedures and prescriptions compared to everywhere else in the world.

Plus, the pharmaceutical company would rather you buy their product at a discount every month, than not at all because you can't afford it.

When I listen to how much my father spends on medicines at 86 years old with supplemental plans to his Medicare I cringe. He can afford the 1000 a month that his plans don't cover, but I know there are so many who just can't and go without.

The U.S. healthcare system is a joke.

I have used the discount drug plans before and they work really well.

a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn

What if it it doesn't have anything to do with the person, but it is all about tracking the phone, and businesses use the information to track where people on certain combinations of medications go and how long they stay there.

Maybe they spend more time in retail stores; or more likely to eat at certain restaurants, whether or not that is about the style/type of food, or just about the choice of dining in or take-out; or maybe whether they spend more time at home or more likely for other forms of entertainment; etc. etc.

It's possible that certain types of businesses might use that information to determine whether or not they would even want to go into a certain area. "There are not enough people in this town on this drug, or on this combination of drugs, so we're not even going to think about opening up a new store in that location."






on an unrelated (& rather pointless) side note: I can never spell 'restaurant' right. Spell-check every single time. I'm aware that I ALWAYS spell it wrong while I'm typing it, yet I still get it wrong again.

a reply to: BrokenCircles

May be, but the coupon is a coupon. It is not stored on my phone, so I don't know how it can track my phone. I have seen the coupons in the mail, and I have seen them at the counters in some stores.

They don't ask for any information, just like using any other coupon.

I know they have to be getting something out of it.

a reply to: BrokenCircles
a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn

It’s common practice for companies to share data for advertising and analytics purposes, which is what GoodRx does. And the small amount of data that is shared cannot be linked back to an individual person,” a GoodRx spokesperson said in a statement to Clark.com. “GoodRx has also gone above and beyond in implementing an opt-out and data deletion feature that is available to all users.”

10 Things To Know Before You Use GoodRx

They also have premium services available for a monthly subscription which will give access to deeper discounts on certain medications. And they sell ads on their website. So that's how they make their money.

You can clear the cache, delete cookies, and turn off location services if you're really worried,

a reply to: cmdrkeenkid

Not worried, just curious/suspicious.