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To: Edwarda who wrote (66118)	12/11/1999 3:48:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Yeah well the problem with discussing drugstores in general retailing terms is you get hit in the head with all these HMO issues. What a messed up system. However just to talk efficiency and cost cutting, imo HMOs do a lot of stupid things like squeeze on drugstores and restrict patient visits, which make consumers very unhappy, when what they should be doing is automating the paper chain. I am joining a new HMO and I need to send my records there - a totally paper process, I have to send a written request to my old HMO and they did up the paperwork and MAIL it to my new HMO. But amazingly records are not cumulative... could be a legal issue here I don't know... so any relevant medical records from the past need to also be requested - this is what I call inefficient. All this stuff should be online under my name - but that isn't possible due to privacy concerns.

To: Edwarda who wrote (66118)	12/11/1999 6:35:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

We belong to Kaiser ~ courtesy of Uncle Sam, although my husband does pay a couple hundred every month for it ~ our physician co-pay is $5, our pharmacy co-pay is $6. I have been very down on Kaiser in the past, but I like my new internist, and I like my rheumatologist, so we are sticking with them. But I've also had a lot of prescriptions filled in the last few years at little pharmacies, drugstore pharmacies (CVS, Rite-Aid), Walmart pharmacy, Costco pharmacy, grocery pharmacies, and I don't really notice much of a difference in the actual pharmacists. The support staff vary widely, but that's the same in any business.