Rx Tourism

07 January 2020, 11:36 AM

Steve Miller

Rx Tourism

I know people who do this themselves, several for insulin:

Utah Flies Public Employees To Mexico To Fill Prescriptions

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PEHP contracts with a Mexican pharmacy, Provide Rx, and Hospital Angeles. Provide RX doesn't even have a storefront like the ones you think of when you hear "Mexican pharmacy." Instead, patients make all the arrangements through their docs in Utah and then send the paperwork to Provide RX, which delivers the meds to the hospital ahead of time.

Looks like this is becoming a regular thing:

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U.S. border officials have created a "medical lane" at the San Ysidro crossing to streamline reentry, and Provide Rx briefs patients on the usual script: "Always declare your medicine as personal use."

And it's spreading:

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It's planning to start a second destination soon, flying patients to Vancouver, Canadaland, where "a clinic is right inside the airport."

How about that!

07 January 2020, 11:57 AM

CHAS

Thank you, Senator McConnell

07 January 2020, 12:13 PM

Nina

My folks had some of their prescriptions filled in Nogales for years. It saved them a ton of money, especially when their drug wasn't on the list of "approved" medications for their insurance.

07 January 2020, 02:03 PM

CHAS

Crossed the border for antibiotics for Don when we were staying at South Padre and he was sick.

07 January 2020, 02:22 PM

jon-nyc

To save money? Or just to avoid needing a prescription?

07 January 2020, 05:57 PM

CHAS

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Originally posted by jon-nyc:
To save money? Or just to avoid needing a prescription?

To avoid need for prescription.

07 January 2020, 08:02 PM

Steve Miller

I’ve bought prescriptions in Mexico to cut costs. $1300/year in premiums won’t get you $400 proprietary medications you can get in Mexico for $35.