Tell your Lib friends: “Thank God for Wal-mart!”
Thanks for posting this, neverdem!
My mother has Medicare Part D. We switched her to all generics at Target for $4.00 each. She takes 6 meds so they cost her $24.00 total for the month.
She was paying up to $20 ea through Medicare. That was before she reached the Doughnut Hole and Part D paid for nothing.
This $4 program saves her a ton of money.
Let's look at Lotrel 10/20 a common high blood pressure medicine.
It consists of two medicines. 10mg of amlodipine, a generic drug, and 20mg of benazepril, another genric drug.
You can buy a 30 day supply of these generic drugs at Wally World for $47 and $4 respectively, or about $1.70 per day
But Novartis, the company that markets Lotrel, combines these two generics and puts them in a purple capsule. A 30 day supply of these capsules costs $87.90 at Wally World, or about $2.93 per day.
Outrageous? You betcha!!