About Us
ProgressiveRx was founded for the millions of Americans without prescription drug benefits. Our goal is to provide the highest-quality drugs at the lowest possible prices, so that all Americans can afford the medications they need. We are not a pharmacy, rather we provide a portal to the world's leading pharmaceutical suppliers.
Why our prescriptions are so inexpensive
A large part of our cost savings comes from our business model. Because we do not have the overhead of a pharmacy, our operating costs are kept at a bare minimum. Our only advertising is through word-of-mouth. Maybe more importantly, we buy our drugs from the source. Like nearly everything else these days - from Nike shoes to plasma screen televisions - many of the prescription drugs that Americans buy are manufactured in Asia. By going directly to the source, we cut out middleman markups and the price discrimination markup drug manufacturers impose on the "affluent" US market. Many of the drugs sold in Western markets are sold at 10,000 to 100,000 times the cost of production. The average Indian consumer earns about 1/60th of what the average American consumer earns. Thus, drugs sold in India cannot be sold at the hefty markup they carry in the US market. Additionally, while we hope for at least modest profits, our overarching goal is to provide prescription drugs to Americans who would not otherwise be able to afford them. This philosophy, along with our business model, allows us to greatly reduce the typical industry markups. For more information on our prescriptions, please click here.
Is it Legal?
In the late 1980s, the FDA put a new policy into place which allowed US consumers to import up to a 90-day supply of prescription drugs for personal use (i.e. not for resale). This policy was designed to allow AIDS patients and others who suffered from chronic illnesses to import drugs which had not yet undergone FDA approval. However, with the emergence of the Internet, many companies began to offer the US consumers less expensive prescriptions from abroad. The FDA then asserted that the policy only applied to non-FDA approved drugs (which protects US pharmaceutical manufacturers from foreign competition and keeps prices artificially high). The US Congress responded by authoring a plethora of bills stating that the FDA should not prohibit the importation of prescription drugs from abroad as long as such drugs are for personal use (i.e. in no larger than 90-day quantities). While the official FDA policy has not yet changed, the agency has not interfered with importation for personal use as long as the purchaser has a prescription for the drugs being imported. In fact, some local and state governments in the US have begun to buy prescription drugs for their public employees from abroad in order to cut costs, and many more have stated their intentions to begin doing so. Illinois created a website which allows its residents to import prescription drugs from abroad. Wisconsin, Kansas, Vermont and Missouri have now joined the site. (Other Recent Developments -- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.) Importing prescriptions has become a very hot topic in the last few years, receiving a lot of attention in the presidential primary debates, a feature story on 60 Minutes and other major news programs, and lobbying campaigns for senior advocacy groups such as AARP. The debate still rages on. For further information on current legislation and the legalities of importing prescription drugs for personal use, we have provided several links below:
Congressional Legislation:
FDA Statements:
Testimonials
We greatly appreciate all of the "Thank Yous" and complimentary emails we've received, as well as your personal stories. They inspire and motivate us. We have not asked for permission to share any of the emails we've received because we do everything possible to preserve our customers' privacy. (If you would like your testimonial displayed on the site, please let us know. We may add a page with such testimonials at some point in the near future.) However, ProgressiveRx also sells over-the-counter drugs on eBay, and the feedback we have received there is public domain. Below is a link which connects to the feedback for our userID on eBay (medicalrefuge) and display a list of the eBay members who left the feedback. Currently we have received a 99.9% positive feedback score and have over 1350 testimonials from unique customers.
Click here to link to our eBay feedback.
For general questions, email: questions@progressiverx.com
For order inquiries, email: orders@progressiverx.com
To send us your prescription, email: prescriptions@progressiverx.com
or Fax: (866) 400-6441
Call: 1-800-400-0707
PO Box 192
Vancouver,WA 98666
