[lyby]

I've spoken with local folks who have been told by their pharmacists that the pharmacy cannot fill a prescription, so they are forced to go to a different "big-box" pharmacy. What the pharmacist cannot say, due to a "contractual gag-order" is that if he fills the prescription, then he will not be reimbursed fully for the medication cost based on the customer's "out-of-pocket" cost coupled with what insurance will reimburse - unlike some of the chain pharmacies and mail-order companies.

Please, read the articles for information that better explains sky-rocketing prices for medications and why we are losing our local, hometown pharmacies.

[DIRTYSECRET]

That’s why the democrats have the upper hand in the health care debate and we’re giving it to them.

A ‘manager’ puts in extra hours at a department stored and gets no overtime. Republicans won’t stick up for these people who are more motivated than the average worker. Guess who they end up voting for?

[rx]

This has been well known among smaller pharmacy owners for 18, if not twenty-five years. IOW, it’s news only to those who’ve not been paying attention to what’s gone on in with retail pharmacy.

[Flaming Conservative]

This is happening in Oklahoma. That idiot governor Stitt vetoed the bill passed by our legislators that would prevent insurance companies from only considering big box pharmacies as in network. He said the insurance companies convinced him it would be cost effective for patients. I smell a kickback because nobody’s THAT stupid.

[monkeyshine]

Some of these pharmacies, particularly those affiliated with or dispensed inside hospitals, have a list of medications they will prescribe. While there are alternatives that may be better for some people or preferred by certain doctors, if they are not on the list they more or less won’t fill them.

I suppose the same is true for many pharmacies. If the insurance doesn’t have it on their list, it is too expensive to keep in stock.

I was prescribed a new anticoagulant. The old one works fine it was generic. The doctor said to try the new one. Co-pay was $400. I went back to the doctor and said give me the old one.

[SaveFerris]

[Hometown Pharmacies Being Driven Out-of-Business]

All according to plan

[SaveFerris]

[Hometown Pharmacies Being Driven Out-of-Business]

Have the idiots that voted for Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama figured it out YET?????? We told them.

[PGR88]

America a needs a completely free-market health-system, based on cash, outside of government regulations, to grow along-side our corrupt, bloated, expensive one, which will soon collapse.

Give Americans the choice of both.

Perhaps Indians can run them next to casinos on their reservations.

[kelly4c]

Bkmk

[CodeToad]

I have fairly in-depth knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry to know that while we pay in the US $10-$200 a pill for many drugs, the cost outside of the US is $0.10-$2 a pill.

The drug companies bribe Congress to allow this.

[Bob434]

Been getting pressure by someone to switch from our local pharmacy to a major network like Walmart- keep getting mail telling me how wonderful it will be to switch-

For now, they are just “suggesting” a switch, but I imagine in the near future it will become a demand to switch, and our local pharmacy will be out of business