Quote Originally Posted by maump View Post
I am not looking for imported generics, just generics. my medications are very common, long time generics. here is what I found based on comparing Bangkok online drugs store and cash at Costplusdrugs.com. NO insurance

some of you old guys are taking these...... are these the kind of prices you pay?

Comparison for 90 day supply from USA cash pharmacy Delivery $5 (total order):

Dilatrend [Carvedilol] 6.25 mg [Sheet of 10 tablets] ฿190.00 x 18 = ฿3420 / 90 day USA $11.40 /180 or ฿419
Ezetrol [Ezetimibe] 10 mg [Sheet of 10 tablets] ฿550.00 x 9 = ฿4950 USA $8.40/90 ฿309
Rosuvastatin Sandoz 20 mg [Box of 28 tablets] ฿910.00 x 3 = ฿2730 USA $6.60/90 ฿243
Ramipril (generic ACE inhibitor) Not listed online in Thailand? USA $7.50/90 or ฿276
Sildenafil Sidegra [Sildenafil] 100 mg [Box of 4 tablets] ฿180.00 USA $10.20/90 100mg or ฿375
CIalis generic Not listed online in Thailand USA 90 x 20 mg 12.40 or ฿456
The Thai generic of Ramipril is called Ramicard.

As a non-American national, I was interested/surprised at the prices you quoted for your medications from Costplusdrugs.com having, like others, always assumed that people in the US paid exorbitant prices for their medications - with or without insurance. Costplusdrugs, however, is not representative of US pharmacies, is it?

It started business (as Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company) only in January 2022, i.e., it is less than 12 months old. It is intended to manufacture and distribute its own generic drugs, thus skipping the middlemen with the intention of "disrupting the pricing of as many drugs as we possibly can" and "disrupt the drug industry and to do our best to end ridiculous drug prices" (https://costplusdrugs.com/mission/). According to Forbes, Mark Cuban's "Real Time Net Worth as of 9/5/22 is $4.6 Billion, and he ranks #578 in the world today" (https://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-...h=62b4a8ff6a04). The firm does not accept medical insurance payments.

Costplus works with a "trusted fulfillment partner, Truepill" that "provides best-in-class pharmacy services" (https://costplusdrugs.com/providers/). Truepill states that "in 2019, we were proud to be featured in the Forbes “Next Billion-Dollar Startup” list (https://truepill.com/company).

The answer to your repeated question, therefore, is that Thai drugstores cannot compete in selling generic medications - imported or otherwise - at lower costs than a single, new, US-based pharmaceutical company with a billionaire founder and a trusted fulfillment partner that is also in the billionaire class. I am sure, however, posters - American and otherwise - will be interested to learn whether Costplus Drugs makes overseas deliveries.