Posted by Pamela Lynn on November 30, 2001, at 1:26:53
In reply to Re: sorry about my spelling, posted by gilbert on November 29, 2001, at 18:39:23
I just read your "P.S." here...What I have to say about that is this:
My pharmicist told me that he could order ANY and/or ALL different 'brands' of the Xanax, regular and generic for me to try. He said he could special order anything that I needed. Your pharmacy might strictly stick to one certain company and may be only able to get you one certain brand of the Xanax...but mine doesn't, as I stated in a previous part of this thread (will only repeat this one more time here, I promise) I AM getting, from my pharmicist, to try, the other Xanax manufactured by the different company.
I might be alittle slow here, but I think I am 'hearing' you right here....But to the best of my knowledge, the consumer always has a right to have either the 'generic' form of a med. or the 'name brand' of a med. (Although one has to pay more for the brand name!)
Thanks for listening to me.
P.L.
> Please excuse my spelling in the previous post, I was in a hurry to get to the airport.......sorry.
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> Gil
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> P.S. Whenever you complain about generics the companies always want to bring up placebo effect and blame it on you the consumer. The pharmacists at my CVS said the same things yours did and I love my phamacist she is great. But facts are facts and just because a drug passes bioflav. testing and is within the FDA approved guidlines for generics does not make it a gauranteed perfect process from that day forward. In most cases generics are fine but I do notice differences. This batch of Mylan xanax I received last week just about put me in withdrawal. Thank God my mom had some Upjohn to get me through until I saw my doc. The really distubing thing about the generics is that with all the mergers and buyouts it won't be long before the generic marketplace is controlled by a slim few. Once a drug store chain contracts with those companies that will be your only choice....Once the drug company making the generic contracts with your health provider you will really be backed into the corner. This does not seem to me to be a free marketplace econonmy, which is what we are supposed to be. The reason behind generics was to offer affordable choices to people who needed them. Look at the Mylan website and see the HUGE list of drugs they are involved in producing....it will blow your mind. This is turning from a free marketplace to an oligopoly and will soon be a monopoly. This will not induce lower prices or high quality products without good old American competition. What will the incentive to turn out high quality xanax be for someone who already has 80% of the market share and contracts with all the major drug stores plus is on the preferred drug list for all of the HMO's and PPO's. This really get's disheartening when you see how corrupt the process really is.
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> Gil
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