Comments on: Ada County Markets Drugs For CVS

By: Silver City

Silver City — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:19:23 +0000

best prices on meds are to be found at costco, just walk in no membership needed…

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:24:57 +0000

Canyon County has done this for a while and saved quite a bit of money on their indigent health care prescription costs.

Hopefully Ada County will also which means less money from the taxpayers. That’s a good thing right?

EDITOR NOTE–It has no connection at all with indigent health care. If it did, I would certainly agree. It is simply no different than a food chain “loyalty card.” You can get one without having to visit ANY distributor. Would the county or ACHD offer pizza coupons or gas coupons for convenience store chains so low income workers can save on “food and trips to the doctor?” Perhaps they should. This is NOT a county program, it is a marketing scheme and a darn good one! http://www.freedrugcard.us/cvs.html

By: Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:23:04 +0000

As the economy tanks, marketing efforts become more invasive and unavoidable. Casual social contacts of mine are spamming my email with ‘special offers’ on an increasing basis.

Welcome to the world of Peak Oil production and its dramatic effects on our withering industrial economy!

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:40:22 +0000

Guardian: So, you did a little checking and found …
Well, I’ll bet you a dinner that the county officials didn’t do a little checking. Someone approached them with this idea, and they reacted: Wow, something that will help residents and won’t cost us money; we’ll be heroes.
County folks, correct me if I’m wrong about you not investigating before jumping aboard.

By: dog

dog — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:58:01 +0000

Viva Viagra!
This is perfect for Ada County and City wonks. Now you can get a discount on Viagra. We need this, after all this is the town that can’t get it up. I’m talking about the big hole downtown.
Who needs to fix the health-care crisis when the benevolent Ada County deciders kick stuff like this down to the proles. This is proof that the free market can control medical expenses for everyone. Yay for free market geniuses.

By: Clancy

Clancy — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:44:16 +0000

Brian is correct. Complete info available at http://www.rxsavingsplus.com/?WT.mc_id=RXSAV-LANDINGPAGE-002

When I did a zip code search (83702, CVS did not even show in the first 10 results. You can even print a card online. Kudos to Ada County for helping educate consumers what is available.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:02:28 +0000

You can presumably use the cards at any pharmacy, not just CVS, so please calm down… Halliburton this ain’t.

As for whether Ada County is doing CVS’ marketing for them… debatable. Yes, CVS gets some good publicity from press releases like the one today in the Statesman by being named as the co-sponsor of the cards. But these cards are designed to specifically help out folks with poor or no prescription insurance coverage… CVS is doing a good thing, in my opinion. No harm done here.