Study: Internet medicine prices in Mexico 40% cheaper than online in US

[Disir]

It’s no secret that countless numbers of people routinely travel to Mexico for cheaper medications and health services. It is especially true in El Pasohere thousands cross the international bridge into Juárez on a daily basis.

Tom Fullerton, a longtime professor of economics and finance at UTEP, has studied this phenomenon known as medical tourism for more than a decade, analyzing price data from both countries.

His studies, part of the University of Texas at El Paso Border Region Modeling Project, have consistently shown that a vast majority of the most popular brand name prescription medications are more affordable in brick-and-mortar pharmacies in Mexico than in the United States.

But can the same be said about online pharmacy prices?

Study: Internet medicine prices in Mexico 40% cheaper than online in US - El Paso Matters

It’s no secret that countless numbers of people routinely travel to Mexico for cheaper medications and health services. It is especially true in El Paso, where thousands cross the international bridge into Juárez on a daily basis.

elpasomatters.org

I almost got tripped up when it referred to 2014 study because that is so 2014 but it continues to show the same.

 

[RodISHI]

Recently I checked a particular medicine price difference between here and a Canadian pharmacy and it was a lot more than 40%. Here it ranged from $879.00 to $1,400.00 depending on the pharmacy. There it could be purchased for $80.00.

 

[Disir]

Recently I checked a particular medicine price difference between here and a Canadian pharmacy and it was a lot more than 40%. Here it ranged from $879.00 to $1,400.00 depending on the pharmacy. There it could be purchased for $80.00.

That is a ridiculous difference.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

It’s no secret that countless numbers of people routinely travel to Mexico for cheaper medications and health services. It is especially true in El Pasohere thousands cross the international bridge into Juárez on a daily basis.

Tom Fullerton, a longtime professor of economics and finance at UTEP, has studied this phenomenon known as medical tourism for more than a decade, analyzing price data from both countries.

His studies, part of the University of Texas at El Paso Border Region Modeling Project, have consistently shown that a vast majority of the most popular brand name prescription medications are more affordable in brick-and-mortar pharmacies in Mexico than in the United States.

But can the same be said about online pharmacy prices?

Study: Internet medicine prices in Mexico 40% cheaper than online in US - El Paso Matters

It’s no secret that countless numbers of people routinely travel to Mexico for cheaper medications and health services. It is especially true in El Paso, where thousands cross the international bridge into Juárez on a daily basis.

elpasomatters.org

I almost got tripped up when it referred to 2014 study because that is so 2014 but it continues to show the same.

Would you take a pill made in Mexico over the intertwebs???....Not mes

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Study: Internet medicine prices in Mexico 40% cheaper than online in US​

Awesome!

How much for the ones that aren't counterfeit?

 

[Dekster]

It’s no secret that countless numbers of people routinely travel to Mexico for cheaper medications and health services. It is especially true in El Pasohere thousands cross the international bridge into Juárez on a daily basis.

Tom Fullerton, a longtime professor of economics and finance at UTEP, has studied this phenomenon known as medical tourism for more than a decade, analyzing price data from both countries.

His studies, part of the University of Texas at El Paso Border Region Modeling Project, have consistently shown that a vast majority of the most popular brand name prescription medications are more affordable in brick-and-mortar pharmacies in Mexico than in the United States.

But can the same be said about online pharmacy prices?

Study: Internet medicine prices in Mexico 40% cheaper than online in US - El Paso Matters

It’s no secret that countless numbers of people routinely travel to Mexico for cheaper medications and health services. It is especially true in El Paso, where thousands cross the international bridge into Juárez on a daily basis.

elpasomatters.org

I almost got tripped up when it referred to 2014 study because that is so 2014 but it continues to show the same.

Yep, but then again, those guys on that TV show Botched make a lot of money fixing South of the Border cosmetic surgeries that went way south.

Medical tourism, however, is a booming industry. I met a man who went to China to get his full mouth dental implants. Said a few plane tickets plus the cost of the procedures there saved him about $15K over having them done in the US.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

Study: Internet medicine prices in Mexico 40% cheaper than online in US​

Awesome!

How much for the ones that aren't counterfeit?

I'll never ever go to Mexico again. USA only

 

[RodISHI]

That is a ridiculous difference.

Yes it is.

The medical industry is a mess and some of the doctors are just as ridiculous too. I asked the local doctor for a prescription so I could just buy the stuff online take it and see if it would help. He insisted I go through to a specialist and MRI and a whole gamut of testing that would cost thousands too. I decided piss on him and all the bs and found an alternative and that worked for me on that issue.

 

[Disir]

Yes it is.

The medical industry is a mess and some of the doctors are just as ridiculous too. I asked the local doctor for a prescription so I could just buy the stuff online take it and see if it would help. He insisted I go through to a specialist and MRI and a whole gamut of testing that would cost thousands too. I decided piss on him and all the bs and found an alternative and that worked for me on that issue.

The system in the US is a mess. I agree. I knew a judge for a short time. We weren't pals or anything. I didn't have conversations with her. She talked and I listened. She had been diagnosed with cancer. She needed a medication that was found and or affordable in Canada. It may have even been a trial drug but by the time she was able to track where it came from she had discovered that it was being sold by the Russian mafia. She died shortly after that.

The lengths that people have to go through to get treatment is unbelievable.

 

[Disir]

Would you take a pill made in Mexico over the intertwebs???....Not mes

I might.

 

[RodISHI]

The system in the US is a mess. I agree. I knew a judge for a short time. We weren't pals or anything. I didn't have conversations with her. She talked and I listened. She had been diagnosed with cancer. She needed a medication that was found and or affordable in Canada. It may have even been a trial drug but by the time she was able to track where it came from she had discovered that it was being sold by the Russian mafia. She died shortly after that.

The lengths that people have to go through to get treatment is unbelievable.

A lot of people dying that shouldn't be over both incompetence and in other cases greed. There is also a lot of people taking charge of their own health and doing their own research because of all that.

A long time friend of Rod's came by recently and he went into detail on how they damn near killed him here at the local hospital. He insisted to Rod to keep me away from that doc preciously mentioned because that is the same one that was going to just let him die by keeping him here locally and not treated properly.

He had gangrene in the bone in his foot. He was diabetic and didn't know it. He ran heavy equipment and he just ignored that pain so he could keep on working while work was available. One night he pulled his sock off and a chunk of dead flesh came off with the sock. He said it was so putrid it gagged him. At that point the infection was already heading up his keg for his heart. The local doctor put him in the hospital gave him an IV and some antibiotics. He said he just floated in and out of it for days until a nurse came in that had not been there previously and said, "This man is dying get him to Des Moines". They took off his lower leg in Des Moines and that saved him. Close call for him and that extra few days cost him more of his health than it should have. Then also his lack of self care had its part in all that too.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

I might.

Are there generic options? Are there older classes of the same drug of older proven medicines that you take?

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

A lot of people dying that shouldn't be over both incompetence and in other cases greed. There is also a lot of people taking charge of their own health and doing their own research because of all that.

A long time friend of Rod's came by recently and he went into detail on how they damn near killed him here at the local hospital. He insisted to Rod to keep me away from that doc preciously mentioned because that is the same one that was going to just let him die by keeping him here locally and not treated properly.

He had gangrene in the bone in his foot. He was diabetic and didn't know it. He ran heavy equipment and he just ignored that pain so he could keep on working while work was available. One night he pulled his sock off and a chunk of dead flesh came off with the sock. He said it was so putrid it gagged him. At that point the infection was already heading up his keg for his heart. The local doctor put him in the hospital gave him an IV and some antibiotics. He said he just floated in and out of it for days until a nurse came in that had not been there previously and said, "This man is dying get him to Des Moines". They took off his lower leg in Des Moines and that saved him. Close call for him and that extra few days cost him more of his health than it should have. Then also his lack of self care had its part in all that too.

If you wait until a chunk of your foot comes off, especially being diabetic, you might have complications to expect

 

[Disir]

Yep, but then again, those guys on that TV show Botched make a lot of money fixing South of the Border cosmetic surgeries that went way south.

Medical tourism, however, is a booming industry. I met a man who went to China to get his full mouth dental implants. Said a few plane tickets plus the cost of the procedures there saved him about $15K over having them done in the US.

Yabut, the guy in Tulsa that did the shooting was in excruciating pain and believed that this was due to the back surgery he just had performed by that doctor. So, it's a med problem, communication problem with what to expect afterwards or this doctor did botch that surgery. While I probably wouldn't get a back surgery down in Mexico, I would get medication.

 

[RodISHI]

If you wait until a chunk of your foot comes off, especially being diabetic, you might have complications to expect

He didn't know he was diabetic and a lot of people just ignore pain and keep on working so they won't miss that paycheck.

 

[Disir]

Are there generic options? Are there older classes of the same drug of older proven medicines that you take?

I don't take medication. I'm not sick. I actually subscribe to the George Lopez medical care method.



Just don't go. If you go, they will find something wrong with you. Better not go.

 

[Disir]

A lot of people dying that shouldn't be over both incompetence and in other cases greed. There is also a lot of people taking charge of their own health and doing their own research because of all that.

A long time friend of Rod's came by recently and he went into detail on how they damn near killed him here at the local hospital. He insisted to Rod to keep me away from that doc preciously mentioned because that is the same one that was going to just let him die by keeping him here locally and not treated properly.

He had gangrene in the bone in his foot. He was diabetic and didn't know it. He ran heavy equipment and he just ignored that pain so he could keep on working while work was available. One night he pulled his sock off and a chunk of dead flesh came off with the sock. He said it was so putrid it gagged him. At that point the infection was already heading up his keg for his heart. The local doctor put him in the hospital gave him an IV and some antibiotics. He said he just floated in and out of it for days until a nurse came in that had not been there previously and said, "This man is dying get him to Des Moines". They took off his lower leg in Des Moines and that saved him. Close call for him and that extra few days cost him more of his health than it should have. Then also his lack of self care had its part in all that too.

That's crazy.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

He didn't know he was diabetic and a lot of people just ignore pain and keep on working so they won't miss that paycheck.

How old? You are right, he should have been transported. Long time diabetics who find out that way is very lucky

 

[RodISHI]

How old? You are right, he should have been transported. Long time diabetics who find out that way is very lucky

65

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

65

He is one tough customer