Prescriptions

[bill_schubert]

Lots of noise about the 'new' Amazon prescription offerings.  So I pulled the thread and, to their credit, the sign up process was pretty good.  Not sure how they figured out that I had Tricare for Life but they did it automatically once I pushed the button.  I entered all my meds and my lack of allergies and my medical conditions.  It was all pretty user friendly.  Downhill from there, though.  Any prescriptions I had that were covered (all but one) were prohibitively expensive, three times what I'm paying at Express Scripts. 

So, worth a look.  I was hoping that maybe paying $5/month would give me some kind of a deal.  But not so much.  Not so long ago I paid zero for my prescriptions.  But congress helped me out.  Now I pay $12 for each of them.  All are generic and I can find them for only a little bit more in other places but nowhere can I find them for less.  So Express Scripts still had my business.  

Dana it a different matter.  She's got a bunch more than I have and I've got them farmed out to the cheapest place which is not necessarily Express Scripts.  I keep track in a spreadsheet.  I doubt I'll even look at them in Amazon.  I do check Mark Cuban's site periodically.  So far I've not found any on his but he keeps expanding and it is just a matter of time.  His model is disruptive in an excellent way.

Other than that it is a quiet day.  I've nothing on the schedule and will likely accomplish it all.

The walk with Zoe was encouraging.  For all but the last but I felt really good.  Got tired towards the end.  My back gets tired still.  The muscles lose strength.  But much better than it has been.

Comments

[susandennis]

I used Amazon Pharmacy for a while - the prices were actually the same, at the time, as everyone else but - and this is wild, actually, their customer service was HORRIBLE. THE only way to access was to call and the people you got on the phone did not know squat. It was handy and I got the 5% cash back but it turned out to be not worth it!

Right now, this year, so far, my drugs - through Humana pharmacy are $0. Even the inhaler. I hate everything about them but the price.

[bill_schubert]

I remember all your Amazon story. It sounds like they are trying to get their shit together so I tried. And the process was excellent. My phone call answered my question immediately and I was on hold using the Pixel hold function for 10 mins or so which was fine. So they seem to be organized. Just not cheap.

Express Scripts has good people and kind of OK system. I can slog through it. They keep making app and web changes that aren't helpful but they are cheap. And I've got time.

[susandennis]

Reading over the press stuff I'm in. Pretty sure that what you did this morning is an entirely different organization than the one I did before. I think the one I did before is no longer even there.