With the repostings, does this hint that they're looking for additional funding/investment or attempting to further scale the business.
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Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs
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#44Discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25932233
And two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31652264
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#45I 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.
Heads up, I think your autocorrect converted "generics" to "genetics".
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#46More competition in this space is good and for certain drugs may be a huge boon but for the average prescription, consumers should probably stick to goodrx to find the best deal. In my case, Cuban offers a very reasonable $7.50 for a 90 ct of a drug I searched (not including shipping, which others here say is $5?)
On GoodRx I see the same drug at a local grocery store for $6.84, (Costco is $8.49) and online pharmacies like geniusRx are $4.50 (s/h unknown). My health insurance through a local pharmacy would cost $14.38
I don't like all the advertising on costplus about how they're saving you like $490 out of $500 on Rx, because everyone else is doing that to. There is literally nothing new here. My local grocery store beat his price by 10%+. But as long as you know that the "pricing reduction" is total bunk and not a competitive advantage and just an explanation of the current state of the industry that EVERYONE is doing, then it's one more option that could be the lowest for you.
In my case, it didn't help me.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Heads up, I think your autocorrect converted "generics" to "genetics".
Thanks, fixed!
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#48As always the issue with privatized social services is that the goal is to make money, not to provide a service so the incentives are fundamentally misaligned. For-profit care providers make money when the fail to provide care. When they fail to cover procedures. When they can substitute lower-quality or less effective goods and services. When they can sell you catastrophic cover with deductibles and co-pays too high for you to actually afford to use it - the way a gym membership makes money selling subscriptions they know you won't use.
This is by definition an improvement over what America has, so I welcome it. That doesn't change the fact it's an umbrella in a hurricane, so it's really not that interesting.
Socializing the whole thing is significantly better. Remember America already has socialized medicine for 40% of the population. It is long past time to up that to 100%.
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#49So is the cost actually low? The last time this came up on HN people agreed the costs are standard and the other pharmacies do not charge the high prices on the comparisons.
I order a steroid cream and its significantly less than Walgreens for the exact same thing. Just my 1 data point.
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#50As always the issue with privatized social services is that the goal is to make money, not to provide a service so the incentives are fundamentally misaligned. For-profit care providers make money when the fail to provide care. When they fail to cover procedures. When they can substitute lower-quality or less effective goods and services. When they can sell you catastrophic cover with deductibles and co-pays too high…
That's pretty much it, but I would add that since medicine in the American sphere of influence is a cornered market the goal is always to deny care, so the patients are more desperate and pay higher prices. Endgame is a billionaire paying his whole billion-dollar fortune for a loaf of bread because he's starving. First you have to corner the market, then deny food, then eventually yes, eventually he will in fact pay a billion dollars for a loaf of bread, I fucking guarantee it.