Walmart offers $4 generic prescription meds

[deadken]

Originally posted by: Gilby

Originally posted by: araczynski
as for the manufacturing base, maybe the manufacturing base needs to get rid of the F'ing unions. That'd be a great start for lowering the costs of manufacturing anything in this country.

Because, you know, decent wages and workplace safety were such a huge mistake.

Well put....

I won't buy ANY items from Walmart. I can't believe that there are actually 'Pro-Walmart' people. I guess that there are still people who enjoy slavery and keeping fellow human beings impoverished. I am always amazed that people forget that this Country used to have Slavery and Child labor. And that this Country improved when those policies were ended. Walmart on the other hand buys from Countries who still use those horrible practices.

Sleep well you 'Ugly Americans'.

 

[desktopgold]

COOL under glaucoma they had THC pills

 

[ivol07]

Originally posted by: desktopgold
COOL under glaucoma they had THC pills

I just had to post that I found it hillarious that this post came immediately after deadken's obviously passionate rant.

I don't necessarily approve of all the practices Wal-Mart takes part in as far as forcing companies to lower their price to the point of sending their manufacturing overseas, but I also don't believe that everyone working at Wal-Mart should be making $20 an hour with full benefits.

But what I think really doesn't matter, yay for $4 prescriptions so people who otherwise couldn't afford it get their pills!

 

[imported_vr6]

chances are if you couldn't afford medicine before, you probably couldn't afford visiting doctors office either.


so whats next, walmart hiring foreign doctors and open a clinic right next to their pharmacy and charges $4 per visit.

 

[Clocker]

Walmart may have ulterior motives but what private business is truly moral or truly ethical. Most businesses have goals to make money and lots of it as long it is legal. However, I think for a lot of people, who can barely afford medical services will benefit from this.

 

[308nato]

Yay wal mart......shampoo, chips, motor oil, watch battery, socks and ammo all in one stop....

 

[allisolm]

Originally posted by: 308nato
Yay wal mart......shampoo, chips, motor oil, watch battery, socks and ammo all in one stop....

You left out cheap antipsychotic meds.

 

[KuJoe]

Is $12 for non-generic perscriptions really going to break the bank?

 

[tcsenter]

Most (if not virtually all) of the drugs on the Florida list are relatively inexpensive generics that have been on the market for years, anyway. I've never paid more than $10 ~ $20 for several of the drugs on the list - cash with no insurance.

That's not to suggest $4 isn't better than $10 ~ $20, I'll take cheaper whenever I can get it. But saving $11 ~ $16 on a prescription that is already available cheaply isn't really 'enhancing' anyone's standard of living, except for the lowest income households, most of whom would already qualify for some kind of discounted prescription, health insurance, or health care programs (private, public, or both).

I currently pay around $50 ~ $60 cash for 90 day supply of the drug I am prescribed (which is not on the list). There can, however, be a huge difference in the price of drugs from one pharmacy to the next. Some pharmacies charge 2.5 times more than I pay for the exact same drug and quantity. It only takes 30 minutes to call around and ask, most people don't. Some independent pharmacies and chains even have pricing online now.

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: 308nato
Yay wal mart......shampoo, chips, motor oil, watch battery, socks and ammo all in one stop....

The only thing you will ever need. :evil: