Comments on: Could Medco Equal “Deadco”?

By: Mail order pharmacy, part 1 at Dr. Leigh Saint-Louis

Mail order pharmacy, part 1 at Dr. Leigh Saint-Louis — Sat, 11 May 2013 21:37:11 +0000

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By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:14:25 +0000

I’m conserned who is working at Medco and where do they get the medication from to put in their warehouses. When this company sends a wrong perscription to you not just once but twice and you call to inform them of the mistake WELL as they tried to say “it is not their mistake”? This company even goes to the extreme of telling you that the manufacture company changed the look of the pill. Funny thing is I had called the manufacture of my medication and there had not been any changes in the look of the pill nor had the color changed to the strange pills I received.I also call 3 local pharmacies and they also said nothing about the pills had changed. Medco is a piss poor excuse for a pharmacy. What happen to a persons choice in their mecical and perscription coverage? I have no trust in this Medco company and I hope that some how they are put out of buisness and it doesn’t take some one to loose their life before they are closed down.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:18:04 +0000

My situation is I have been on Lexapro for maybe 1.5 to 2 years now. Suddenly, my insurance company tells me I can no longer fill this at my retail pharmacy and I MUST get it filled through the mail order pharmacy (Medco).

My doctor sent a new prescription to Medco electronically and I had him send a new Rx to my retail pharmacy just in case so I had an Rx ready if I didn’t get my mail order meds.

I had 2 days left, so I called my pharmacy for a refill (I found I still had 1 left on my current Rx). Yesterday I went in and they tell my they couldn’t fill it because it is no longer covered… I guess they’d rather tell me this in person instead of calling me when they tried to process the claim??

I called my insurance company.. now I need to call my doctor’s office to try to get them to call and get a prior authorization so the retail pharmacy can fill my rx.

I guess I’m going back to the pharmacy today and paying out of pocket for a few days to get me through the 3-day holiday weekend.

By: tom mullen

tom mullen — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:59:22 +0000

OH?????
TWM

By: Martha Himber

Martha Himber — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 21:53:37 +0000

Medco sent me Vitamin C capsules instead of Effexor. It took me quite a while to realize it, and I went through hell with the withdrawal. It almost wrecked my marriage.

I know that it was just somebody’s slip-up, not intentional. Even so, I would never use their services again, nor recommend them to anyone else.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:44:48 +0000

Whoever is paying attention to this topic (might just be me!), you’ll find instructive to watch several documentaries out there. “The future of Food” in one of them that truly lays out the concentration of our food into fewer hands represented by GMO-businesses, fertilizer, and agribusiness industries, and most interestingly the revolving door between private companies and government. It’s definitely worth watching. Another one and more scary is the freely available Nutricide (google videos) on a conference by Dr. Rima Laibow MD on the Codex Alimentarius. Really Orwellian.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:37:57 +0000

Sorry, wrong link. Corrected below. -- As is already happening in the food, telephone and internet industries which are getting concentrated into a few hands, the people, patients, doctors and local pharmacies are gradually losing power.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:34:45 +0000

Rephrasing it. -- I think the underlying theme here is a takeover of the local and independent prescription market by a few large companies like Medco. As is already happening in the food, telephone and internet industries which are getting concentrated into a few hands, the people, patients, doctors and local pharmacies are gradually losing power. Generally noboby complains because things have been going quiet and it usually takes a lot of time to achieve it. But if an emergency occurs (and it’s bound to occur), things go at another price. Let’s say a local community rallies against the government because of another multitrillion Wall Street bailout. These communities can be punished by large conglomerates in the drug, food and telecommunications industries. Local pharmacies won’t be able to refill patients’ prescriptions because they have already downsized, lost their know-how or client networks, or simply are out of business. This might seem farfetched but look at the ‘agribusiness’ industry which has virtually put local farmers out of business. These large swaths of land in a few places within the U.S. make use of intensive agriculture consisting of artificial fertilizers, transgenic plants, mutagenic pesticides and herbicides to finally deliver food to our local markets via trucking all over the U.S. We can no longer rely on local farms to feed us because these specialize on a few organic crops and anyway their throughput is so low but even in spite of that, they, as well as local gardens have become target of our government to be regulated or even outlawed. Thus we’ve become so dependent on a few companies to bring us food from somewhere else and they could easily decide not to stock our grocery stores. By the same token, the telephone (cellphone/ fixed phone lines) and internet communication could be shut down by the flip of a switch. The day you fight back, that day you won’t eat, won’t talk on the phone, won’t get online or take your asthma medication. And it doesn’t matter if you have guns, you won’t be able sustain a peaceful/less protest with your stomach empty. In summary, the quiet switch to Medco at the expense of our local pharmacies will likely mean Deadco. Please support your local pharmacy, support your local farms, support local businesses, get back your government.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:25:00 +0000

I think the underlying theme here is a takeover of the whole prescription market by a few companies at the expense of local markets. As it is already happening in the food, telephone and internet industries which are getting concentrated into a few hands, the people, patients, doctors and local pharmacies are gradually losing power. Generally noboby complains because things have been going quite smoothly. But if an emergency occurs (and it’s bound to occur, see http://www.prisonplanet.com/paulson-was-behind-bailout-martial-law-threat.html ), things go at another price. Let’s say a local community rallies against the government because of another multitrillion Wall Street bailout. These communities can be punished by large conglomerates in the drug, food and telecommunications industries. Local pharmacies won’t be able to refill patients prescription because they have already downsized, lost their know-how or client networks, or simply are out of business. The same thing is happening in the food industry and the only thing these conglomerates need is to prohibit local gardens (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtLGuOQemnQ ). Similarly, have you noticed that if you are out of your home and don’t own a cellphone is almost impossible to make a phone call anywhere in the U.S.? Well, cellphone and internet communication can be shut down by flipping a switch. They can do it, they own it, they control it, but you don’t nor your neighbor. The day you fight back, that day you won’t eat, won’t talk on the phone, won’t get online nor take your asthma medication. And it doesn’t matter if you have guns, you won’t be able sustain a peaceful/less rally with your stomach empty. In our modern cities where almost half of population are some kind of clerk, is expected that nobody farms anymore, nobody knows how to farm, but who would when we’re being fed cheap, genetically modified food grown God only knows where by the agribusiness industry. So let us know more about your prescription benefits with large conglomerates.

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:19:41 +0000

I’m thankful my daily meds aren’t expensive. I’m scared to death of mail-order, and don’t want the hassles of arguing continually for my brand of choice. It was hard enough getting the doc to prescribe it (desiccated thyroid-yes, it really works better than synthetic for me). There IS a difference whether the insurance companies accept that or not.

My med costs me $7.95 a month cash; it would be a $15 if I had my insurance take care of it. Hope I don’t end up ever needing more expensive stuff because hubby’s work insurance just pushed everyone on mail-order. Blecchh.