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LisaM

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1. Why are pharmacies having trouble?

Tue Oct 1, 2024, 10:03 AM

Oct 1

I have to pick up a small eyedrop prescription about every six months. No matter which pharmacy I go to (usually Walgreens or Safeway, since I need to walk or use transit) there is a line. There seem to be hundreds or even thousands of prescriptions waiting to be picked up, and the pharmacists are working their keisters off. Yet Rite-Aid just closed all its Michigan stores, Walgreens is in trouble, and now CVS. Did private equity firms get involved? Are online prescription companies the issue (though Express Scripts just got into trouble).

Something seems really awry.

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Exclusive: CVS explores options including potential break-up, sources say [View all] BumRushDaShow Oct 1 OP

Why are pharmacies having trouble? LisaM Oct 1 #1

There has been a lot of "consolidation" in this market over the decades BumRushDaShow Oct 1 #4

It's the PBMs thumper2547 Oct 1 #5

Our Byzantine Healthcare System modrepub Oct 1 #6

Lawsuits from the opioid crisis were a big factor with lots of publicity IronLionZion Oct 1 #9

I think this is ironic, slightlv Oct 1 #11

I take 2 medications mercuryblues Oct 1 #13

Have you looked into Cost Plus Drugs? FakeNoose Oct 1 #14

I have to get it through CVS mercuryblues Oct 1 #15

Of course it is - Americans are paying through the nose FakeNoose Oct 1 #16

So the guys that dispense medications own the guys that pay for medications bucolic_frolic Oct 1 #2

I have Cigna and they force us to go to CVS lanlady Oct 1 #3

Way back in the late '70s BumRushDaShow Oct 1 #7

How this is not a monopoly, I don't understand. slightlv Oct 1 #12

But for-profit healthcare is the best thing ever. eggplant Oct 1 #8

We really need a nationalized healthcare system............... turbinetree Oct 1 #10