I switched to this after the 3rd time getting abused by Walgreens. In my area they dont even acknowledge you when you walk to the counter and forget your refills. The pharmacists just blatantly lie to you that it will be ready at this point. They are overwhelmed and Walgreens doesnt want to pay for more pharmacists while not limiting how much business they can reasonably take. Ordering has made things easier for me and I feel like less of a buffoon standing there in that dumpster fire.
Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs
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#32So does this work by essentially bypassing the PBM rebates process, and directly negotiating with the manufacturers?
On the homepage they say they markup the manufacturing cost by 15%, include $3 for pharmacy labor, and finally apply shipping and handling based on location. It seem even with such healthy margins they're still an order of magnitude cheaper for some medications. Big Pharma looks obscene sometimes.
"big pharma" aren't cut out of the line, it's the distribution company that sits between the manufacturer and the pharmacy.
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#33I hate to be so cynical if it helps people, but with his name plastered in the company and site like this, it feels like prep for a presidential run or some other political office.
Naming a company for a founder is common
Yeah it just dawned on me that the first name was added because "Cuban Drugs" probably doesn't sound too nice, ha.
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#34I switched to this after the 3rd time getting abused by Walgreens. In my area they dont even acknowledge you when you walk to the counter and forget your refills. The pharmacists just blatantly lie to you that it will be ready at this point. They are overwhelmed and Walgreens doesnt want to pay for more pharmacists while not limiting how much business they can reasonably take. Ordering has made things easier for me a…
Walgreens has their own prescription plan with a $10/year fee that offers significant savings on generics (I've used it between jobs). But they seem to treat their pharmacists like crap so some locations are really terrible to deal with.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're Michael Scott Paper Company.
Or Disney or Ford or McDonald's or Goldman Sachs or 1000s of others. Even in pharmacy, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and many others are named after founders.
Cuban isn’t a founder. He just paid to have his name associated with the company (or rather, the company gave him an ownership stake to use his name).
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#36Why is this being pushed multiple times on Reddit and on Hacker News? Seems like a marketing campaign for clout.
Anytime I see celebrity name, I assume marketing campaign. Reddit is simply unusable, everything is an ad outside of posts on technical topics.
As was said fondly of computer magazines during the era when they were the size of telephone books and you could shake a rainforest's worth of inserts out of them:
> Everything is an advertisement, and some of it is clearly marked as such.
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#37I switched to this after the 3rd time getting abused by Walgreens. In my area they dont even acknowledge you when you walk to the counter and forget your refills. The pharmacists just blatantly lie to you that it will be ready at this point. They are overwhelmed and Walgreens doesnt want to pay for more pharmacists while not limiting how much business they can reasonably take. Ordering has made things easier for me a…
Walgreens has their own prescription plan with a $10/year fee that offers significant savings on generics (I've used it between jobs). But they seem to treat their pharmacists like crap so some locations are really terrible to deal with.
Makes sense. Yeah its not the pharmacists fault, its corporate who has no pulse on whats going on. Or they just dont care.
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#38Why is this being pushed multiple times on Reddit and on Hacker News? Seems like a marketing campaign for clout.
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#39With the repostings, does this hint that they're looking for additional funding/investment or attempting to further scale the business.
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#40Why is this being pushed multiple times on Reddit and on Hacker News? Seems like a marketing campaign for clout.
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