I Just Couldn't Work At "Family Pharmacy"
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 07:19PM There are three kinds of people who step up to the counter at their family pharmacy and say, "I would like to fill a prescription, please". Indeed my family pharmacy actually has the name, "Family Pharmacy". Unfortunately, there is nothing family about today's pharmacy. They are the "foot soldiers" for "Big Pharma", the worldwide collaberating cartel that dances with government, panders to Wall Street, and constructively regulates you life by the distribution of little yellow and red pills. This rant is however, not about the medicinal value of drugs. It is about pricing!
First, according to Barack, about 8 out of 10 have insurance and really don't give a damn about the price. They may care about the deductible or co-pay, but not the price. They are either naive enough, or sufficiently narrow minded, to not see the debilitating power of uncontracted insurance premiums. Second, there are the few, who for whatever tragic reason, are paying, or trying to pay, for their own drugs. More often than not, they are the disenfranchised, totally ignorant of the market cost or the price spectrum. Third, there is an even smaller group, who likely have insurance and personal means, but who simply get pissed off when their prescription receipt is cheerfully stapled to a sack of drugs sold at a predatory price. I am part of the third group, and am pissed, not only because the scam financially victimizes me and countless millions like me, but because it further makes all of those people who make their living from the "drug industry" immoral hypocrits, no doubt self loathing, because they know that they're being used, yet daily perpetrate the scam in exchange for paychecks.
How sad that when some nice nerdy pharmacist hands me 30 Plavix, while apologizing that his discount price of $8.75 per tablet is so expensive, he never mentions that the same tablets are 96% less ($.44) at Northwest Pharmacy, a Canadian Pharmacy based in Washington State. Further, they "door deliver" for free.
I am glad he's the one going home each night, knowing that he is a co-conspirator in this unconscionable Life/Death Rip Off. I just couldn't (forgive the pun) swallow it!
Oh, but it gets worse. Assuming that Congress passes the current pending SOPA/PIPA legislation, the "drug industry" will have blocked the low price "internet option" for we few Americans who care enough to be responsible.
PS: It has been more than 3 years and Obama hasn't fixed this travesty, which does not appear to be that complicated. Why not? I voted for him in '08 for the last time, even if his reelection organization sends me 1000 emails a day!
Reader Comments (2)
I agree with your discussion about family pharmacy and Obama hasn't fixed this travesty.
Yup everything you said is absolutely right , I like your thoughts . But i'd rather say that we can't do anything in front of nature's rules .