# Good place to get generic bulk Dayquil WITHOUT Nyquil? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 10, 2026, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-place-to-get-generic-bulk-dayquil-without-nyquil/1027556 "2026-02-10T22:16:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-place-to-get-generic-bulk-dayquil-without-nyquil/1027556/41 "2026-02-13T18:16:39Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > And they are much more than “mail order pharmacies”, they are a major component of our our healthcare dysfunction. Speaking as someone who indirectly works in the industry: I cannot disagree with this. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-place-to-get-generic-bulk-dayquil-without-nyquil/1027556/42 "2026-02-13T18:26:58Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > they are a major component of our our healthcare dysfunction. They are also doing a lot to put your local pharmacy out of business. They provide (authorize) not only the fewest meds but also only the cheapest ones, in spite of what the prescribers have decided is best for you and your health, You often have to ‘fail’ at multiple other courses of treatment before you might, just might, get the best drug for you and then only if your doctor can and will do a laborious appeal/appeal again dance on your behalf. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-place-to-get-generic-bulk-dayquil-without-nyquil/1027556/43 "2026-02-13T20:13:58Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > The system we have here where you have to carry some sacred piece of paper (or maybe they fax/call it in now) to an altogether separate business in a different part of town and then wait hours for an overworked pharmacist to fill it on behalf of some doctor they’ve never worked with… it seems quite inefficient and strange (not to mention expensive)… I have Kaiser. You just go online and they mail the drugs to you. If it is a new prescription, they do it like > [@Reply](#): > > you just pick up your prescriptions in the same clinic/hospital where you got your treatment. You go from the doctor to another waiting room, wait 10-15 min for your drugs, and go home with them in the same visit. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-place-to-get-generic-bulk-dayquil-without-nyquil/1027556/44 "2026-02-13T20:31:56Z")
Very cool. Is that a Kaiser specific thing, or any HMO? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-place-to-get-generic-bulk-dayquil-without-nyquil/1027556/45 "2026-02-13T20:40:18Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Is that a Kaiser specific thing, or any HMO? Probably a Kaiser thing; they are vertically integrated. They offer health insurance, operate providers (doctors and hospitals), and serve as their own PBM. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-place-to-get-generic-bulk-dayquil-without-nyquil/1027556/46 "2026-02-13T20:47:16Z")
But the hospital where my doctor practices has a pharmacy. They are nonprofit, and are sometimes slightly cheaper than other pharmacies. They will also mail drugs to me. They are one of four pharmacies in my records, and i need to ask each doctor to send scrips to the right one, though. (The others are a local pharmacy, costplus drugs, and Express Scripts. I think everything is cheaper if i avoid Express Scripts, except on the rare occasions when the drug is expensive _and_ they cover it. ) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-place-to-get-generic-bulk-dayquil-without-nyquil/1027556/47 "2026-02-14T00:58:26Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Very cool. Is that a Kaiser specific thing, or any HMO? Mostly- Some other coverages offer it, as > [@puzzlegal](#): > > But the hospital where my doctor practices has a pharmacy. They are nonprofit, and are sometimes slightly cheaper than other pharmacies. They will also mail drugs to me. The friendly mod said. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-place-to-get-generic-bulk-dayquil-without-nyquil/1027556.md?page=2)