Walmart continues to find new ways to make their stores contain everything you would ever want to find in a gigantic box.

With a visit to one of these singular, vast stores, consumers can buy: clothes to keep themselves warm and possibly fashionable; food to sustain themselves (and their pets); TVs and video games to stay entertained; automotive supplies to keep their cars running (even gas in some places!). And it’s all incredibly cheap, so when they finally leave that giant box they still have some money – unless they spent it on more cheap stuff like an eye exam or a sandwich from Subway, which are also readily available inside the small metropolis that is your local Walmart.

They also provide something that BenefitsVIP can whole-heartedly support: prescription drugs for four dollars. Walmart boasts that they provide $4 30-day supplies of 95% of the drugs for which prescriptions are written in the US. And recently, they began providing 90-day supplies of many of these drugs for $10.

These drugs were long priced so highly that purchasing them was a huge burden for low- and fixed-income Americans. Walmart is able to provide them at cheap prices because of what they don’t have: a brand name. They are generic drugs. They are produced not by the initial pharmaceutical company who jacked up prices to recoup high research costs, but by post-patent companies who sell them at competitive prices.

The generic drugs are exactly like the expensive, name-brand drug. As Walmart’s FAQ shows, they have the same active ingredients in the same concentrations, the same purity and stability (and the same side effects). Though many top brand-name drugs are not available for these low prices, Walmart says these cheaper copies have already saved Americans over $1 billion.

This isn’t available for everyone, though. North Dakotans have no access to these $4 prescriptions at all. Also, certain drugs are more expensive in the following states:
California
Colorado
Hawaii
Minnesota
Montana
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Despite these technicalities, most are calling the cheap drug offerings from this guy 🙂 a great opportunity to save money on health costs, especially in tough times like these. This is even starting up a bit of competition, as Target, Walmart’s chief rival in the business of empire-sized emporiums, plans to at least regionally match the $4 deal.

We at BenefitsVIP are always looking for ways for you to stay healthy and save money on healthcare. We think that a trip to the Walmart pharmacy is a good way to see if you and your family can be insured for a little less. Chances are that you’re going to Walmart anyway, whether it’s for a loaf of bread, a new pair of jeans, a Playstation, or all of the above plus a family photo!