When it comes to Pharma and personal health I change my tune (completely) as Wal-mart has exposed medication and treatment prices to an open market wide distribution supply chain...Ursus A. Horribilis wrote:
The debate is the fun part.
I use Walmart and it ain't for Chinese crap. It's for the monthly meds and if it wasn't for Walmart and what they did a few years back to the pharma's and only charging what it is really worth instead of what it means to you then costs for my insulin and various other shit would be even more unbelievable.
I don't have any facts but insurance won't cover the reli-on brand of insulin. Walmart bought out the pharmacuetical years ago as they were going under. Once Walmart bought them out and started producing it themselves the price for a bottle of insuling dropped from about $70 to $26/bottle. Insurance does cover the Lilly brand of the same insulin that is somewhere around $80/bottle now or you can go with a slightly quicker acting Lilly brand at $120/bottle.
I wonder if Blue Cross and the major Pharmaceuticals are in bed together on this thing?
I ain't nearly as worried about Walmart if they are offering employees what the rest of the employers are offering as I am the Ins. Co. and Pharma gouging the public because there is a medicine we can't live without.
In my Perfect Hippie World (P.H.W.)
Medicine would be priced at a direct reflection of it's cost to develop and produce - so instead of 700% margin grabs by a publicly held company for a drug that keeps people alive... You'd see $135.00 scripts costing $19.00
(I think if you check my math you'll see 135 is about 7 x 19)
Now that's my Perfect Hippie World... where daisy's are handed out on the street and politicians never lie
(It's a nice place)
