Posted on 07/25/2013 10:49:04 AM PDT by Nachum
CVS Caremark Corp. will roll out an outreach campaign this fall to help uninsured Americans find out about their insurance options under the Affordable Care Act.
Federal and state governments are planning to launch online insurance exchanges or marketplaces starting Oct. 1 that will allow people to shop for private health insurance or Medicaid if they qualify. Coverage would start Jan. 1.
“We’re planning pretty close to Oct. 1 to use stores as a place where people can get information,” Helena Foulkes, CVS Caremark executive vice president and chief health care strategy and marketing officer, said in an interview. She said the company learned during the 2006 expansion of Medicare, which added a drug benefit, that consumers didn’t start asking for information or help until they could actually enroll in a drug plan rather than worrying about it ahead of time.
Ms. Foulkes said pharmacists and pharmacy staff in the firm’s 7,400-plus retail stores will be trained to help direct customers to reliable sources of information about how they can obtain insurance coverage under the health law. Local stores will allow organizations who have trained navigators or people qualified to help consumers pick and enroll in an insurance plan to set up inside CVS locations.
CVS, which also run retail health clinics in more than 600 stores, and other drugstore chains stand to benefit from having additional customers with insurance. Drugstores also have a pretty good idea of which customers lack insurance when they have prescriptions filled.
Earlier this month, Walgreens said it would offer informational brochures in its 8,000-plus stores to tell consumers about the health law and would launch a website in partnership with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
CVS is also planning in-store events that would coincide with the company’s existing “project health” program that
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Boycott bait.
While CVS schedules their cashiers and stock people to 29 hours a week.
how is it that in a capitalist country, all these corporations seem to side with the Marxists.
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But, but, 0bama said we could keep our doctors and everything would be transparent and so wonderful, so why do I need help signing up for 0bamacare? He wouldn't lie, would he?
/extreme sarc (if you hadn't guessed)
I wish I could. Our current health insurance plan has CVS as a "preferred vendor," so we are forced to get all prescriptions there. They're terribly inefficient today; one can only imagine how they'll be with more customers and demands.
These B@$t@&ds are going to use every trick in the book to make this thing un-repealable, how I revile them. CVS will pay a big price for this as Conservatives vote with their dollars, unless other firms fall in line as well and we have no options....
Note to self...Cancel CVC card.
Due to several factors, I can’t.
Note to self...Cancel CVS card.
Nexrt they’ll be selling suicide kits.
$$$$$$$$$$ Bill 200 million doses of birth control pills to the taxpayer $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
My last purchase at CVS has been made.
All big pharmacy chains love the idea, at least till the unintended consequences come around to bite them in their glutea maxima.
IMO this ceased to be a capitalist company back in the 70’s when companies figured out that for a relatively small investment in K Street lobbying, they could tip the table in their direction and not have to compete in the marketplace.
Been all downhill from there.
This is an eating-one’s-seed-corn stupid notion, of course. In this instance, it is so in more than one way. If there’s any proof needed that it is not for the moment we were created to live, how this plays out will be that proof.
Yep, business got hooked on that government tit.
That with limited foresight. The prevailing US corporate culture did not HAVE to have the intensely myopic character it has, but many factors combine to tempt it that way, which is the way of destruction. Japanese firms tend to think in terms of hundreds of years! That is going to show itself wiser in the long run, even if Japan is in a slump now.
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