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?
They have the upper hand, because they lie about public healthcare. They say that it’s all healthcare and all the time and for everybody. That’s an economic impossibility.
You can give all healthcare and all the time, but not for everybody.
You can give all healthcare and to everybody, but not all the time.
You can give healthcare to everybody and all the time, but not all healthcare.
I work as a pharmacy tech in a chain store, and most of that profit from RX’s goes to the PBMs and pharma. My manager at my location has us pushing our prescrbing services (SABA, Epinephrine, Anti-emetics, etc.) and vaccines because our average profit from a prescription is $0.61. Sixty-one cents. That doesn’t even pay for the bottle it comes in.
PBMs are squeezing everyone, and drug shortages caused by manufacturers and government affect the independents first, solely because chains get preference from suppliers. That’s not right either, and is a huge problem.
I don’t know of many independents in this area, actually. Just a handful of specialty pharmacies that do compounding, because we don’t anymore.