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    *UPDATE POST 69* Medication no longer covered on insurance formulary

    Yes see if your DR will write you another prescription for the generic and take it to the pharmacy with the good rx code. This will likely be cheaper then the name brand through insurance. It will just not count towards your deductible. It is not legal to reimport ANY medication from...
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    Any experiences with CDHPs for health insurance?

    I am seeing more and more employers dropping their PPO and HMO plans in lieu of these high deductible plans. I have been on one for 5 or 6 years now, in the beginning my employer provided us a set dollar amount in an HRA (like and HSA but different rules) each year, however over time they...
  3. J

    UGH....Father's Day

    A card from your children. When did these hallmark holidays become a major gift giving requirement.
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    Disney Hourly Salaries

    Publicly traded companies do not work that way. They are legally required to distribute that profit back to the various shareholders, they didn't stuff that 9 billion dollars under Cinderella's mattress. There are three things a corporation can do with "profit", they can reinvest it into...
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    *UPDATE POST 69* Medication no longer covered on insurance formulary

    Concerta is an exception to this rule, the authorized generic is actually manufactured by the same company that produces the name brand, its the exact pill. In this case the name brand manufacturer is selling the pill to the generic distributor at a reduced cost. Drug manufacturers will...
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    *UPDATE POST 69* Medication no longer covered on insurance formulary

    Yah getting 90 days of an expensive controlled substance drug that doesn't work was NO fun. Yes the downgrade was November of 2014, then one of the generic manufacturers sued the FDA over the downgrade, in July of 2015 they lost the suit. Funny antidote, my wife works for a hospital, so...
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    *UPDATE POST 69* Medication no longer covered on insurance formulary

    I believe the insurance companies are responding to the fact that the FDA downgraded several of the generic versions of concerta and reclassified them as no longer automatically substitutable for the name brand. This was done after numerous complaints to the FDA by users of these generic...
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    *UPDATE POST 69* Medication no longer covered on insurance formulary

    Been here as well, this drug has been a absolute life changer for my son. The non authorized generics did not work and are not the same release mechanism. So that leaves us with the name brand and authorized generic. As others have said United and other insurance carriers stopped covering...
  9. J

    Feeding 25 people cheap/easy?

    If you are brave Goat head curry: Ok seriously grill hamburgers, brats, and hot dogs. I just did this for about 15 ~ 20 people this weekend. I grilled up the burgers and then kept them warm in a beef broth bath in the oven while I grilled up the brats and dogs. Throw in a few side dishes...
  10. J

    Payless Returning worn shoes??

    I would take them back, see if you can at least exchange them for another pair, perhaps that pair was made wrong or just had something off with the one shoe.
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    RENT A CENTER?

    Hmm Well here is my take, you pay tens of thousands of dollars in commission to the real estate agent to sell your house. How about they call in a staging company on their dime to help sell the house, even if its just for an open house.
  12. J

    Amazon Subscription Purchases?

    Just be careful and check the price when your next shipment is due. Folks in another message board complained they tracked their subscribe and save items before and after their next shipment date and for several of their items the price jumped up 60% the day of their shipment then went back...
  13. J

    What would you pay for charity?

    You also need to consider the tax implications of this, since the doner will receive a material benefit from their donation, they cannot claim the full donation as a tax deduction. They have to subtract out the cost of the t-shirt, so you will need to provide that information. Personally I...
  14. J

    Powerball jackpot is $400 million ...however

    Ill re-post another fun lotto visualization on the statistics Stanford University mathematician Keith Devlin offered this: "Imagine a standard NFL football field. Somewhere in the field, a student has placed a single, small, common variety of ant that she has marked with a spot of yellow paint...
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    Powerball jackpot is $400 million ...however

    Yes indeed you could, and you make some very good points, we all have our vices. For grins lets say you spend 6k a year every year at the mouse house, Mickey just cost you $750,147.59 after 30 years :scared:
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    Powerball jackpot is $400 million ...however

    So you are spending upwards of $624 per year. If you took that money and invested it in a mutual fund making 8% per year when you goto retire (30 years) you would have and extra $78,015.35, if you received the more aggressive avg return of 12% you would have $183,555.52 However, my kids thank...
  17. J

    Driveway Etiquette???!?!?!? Hmmmmmm...

    Zombie thread for sure; but don't you find it funny we park in a driveway and drive in a parkway?
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    Sending bottles of wine to POR

    I know the gift shop in POFQ sells wine, DW purchased a bottle to bring back home, then even provided a packing box and extra packing foam for us.
  19. J

    DD broke her iphone. Need some advice. What would you do?

    Outch, was the increase from $35 to $65 because they subsidized the phone? Realize that is $360 per year more or $720 over two years. With that kind of monthly price increase I would expected the phone to be $0.
  20. J

    50% off Keurig 2.0

    San Francisco Bay coffee has a little plastic bypass device you clipped onto the 2.0 to make it take any kcup They call it the freedom clip https://www.gourmet-coffee.com/Freedom-Clip.html




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