{"id":689,"date":"2004-10-20T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/20\/10-20-04\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T21:15:45","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T05:15:45","slug":"canadian-pharmacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/20\/canadian-pharmacies\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Pharmacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago I ordered drugs from a Canadian Pharmacy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadadrugprices.com\/\">http:\/\/www.canadadrugprices.com<\/a>. They said they might take up to 3 weeks to arrive. They arrived in 2 weeks. Although generic Lamisil isn&#8217;t available in the US, I got a generic from them. The brand is APO-Terbinafine &#8211; Terbinafine Hydrochloride Tablets &#8211; 250 mg. Made by Apotex Inc. Toronto Canada. The prescription for 30 pills cost $119 with shipping. In the US, it would have cost $365&#8230;.. wait&#8230; WAIT.. Hey! a month ago it cost $365&#8230; I just checked CVS.com and it&#8217;s $307.<\/p>\n<p>So, going through the Canadian pharmacy my 3 month treatment (for a yucky toenail fungal infection) costs $119 * 3 = $357. Going through CVS (my Medco insurance plan through Oxford doesn&#8217;t cover direct Medco mail order, so I have to order retail) costs $308 *3 = $924 &#8230;. My insurance will cover 1\/2 of that&#8230;. $462.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Going Canadian is saving me about 25%.<\/p>\n<p>Wait a minute &#8230;. I just called my local CVS and they&#8217;ll charge me $353 for a 1 month supply (not counting insurance). But CVS.com will charge me $307 + $1 shipping. That&#8217;s $45 ($135 for a whole course of treatment) for nuthin&#8217;. Someone&#8217;s making too much money here. I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again: I&#8217;m in the wrong fuckin&#8217; business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So<\/strong>, Canadian mail order saves me 66% off CVS retail, or 61% off CVS mail order. With my 50% copay insurance, Canadian mail order saves me 23% off CVS mail order. That&#8217;s not as much savings as I originally thought&#8230; but it&#8217;s still appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago I ordered drugs from a Canadian Pharmacy, http:\/\/www.canadadrugprices.com. They said they might take up to 3 weeks to arrive. They arrived in 2 weeks. Although generic Lamisil isn&#8217;t available in the US, I got a generic from them. The brand is APO-Terbinafine &#8211; Terbinafine Hydrochloride Tablets &#8211; 250 mg. Made by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}