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Tomorrow morning (it is 3AM here...I am working late as usual) I will post an article from the NY Times on a couple who have lost everything during their retirement because the 'wonderful' American company pulled the rug out from under them and cancelled their retirement benefits ...
Chris
And let me back Chris up with cold, hard facts on a local news report. He brought up a truly valid and saddening fact of the way life is now. This is from another angle.
"It's The Secret the major drugstore chains don't want you to know. But NewsChannel9 is exposing it for you.
With the skyrocketing costs of prescription medications, more and more people are turning to generic medications to try to save a few dollars.
NewsChannel9 found some drug store chains are jacking up the price of prescriptions more than 3,000 percent.
NewsChannel9 investigated and found a huge difference in the cost of what generic drugs cost local pharmacies and what they charge customers.
Our reporter called Costco, Marc's, CVS, Rite-Aid and Walgreens to check prices.
Prozac is one of the most widely prescribed drugs for depression. Its generic is Fluoxetine. Pharmacies buy the pills for $2.97 wholesale for a 30-day supply. But for the same prescription at Walgreens, the pharmacist quoted a price of almost $45.
For high blood pressure, the generic drug for Vasotec is called Enalapril. Wholesale is $3.60 for 30 days of pills. But if you go to Rite-Aid, it's $38.99.
So why are those savings not being passed on to consumers?
Walgreens admitted that you probably will pay more, but what you're paying for is convenience. They're on busy corners where real estate is more expensive, they have longer hours and drive-through pharmacies."
I snipped a great portion of this to keep confidentiality of location but trust me .. this investigative reporter found LUDICROUS amounts of money being made off of you by pharmacies.
What Chris mentioned and what I found .. these people are just EVIL. You're in extreme pain? You're going to die if you don't have this? OK .. then the price is this. What do you say? NO? It's just Evil, period. And we're not even talking about the drug companies themselves. Things like valiums, which were researched and created in the SIXTIES, have LONG, LONG ago paid for R&D and it takes them LESS THAN ONE-TENTH OF A PENNY to make a pill. So, what's the markup there?
This is the wave of the future. OurPrescriptionsForLess are smart people and they are getting out in front of this. There's a lot of money and a ballooning, exploding market for this. And don't you think for a second you are some type of "criminal" for taking advantage of this. You wanna see the criminals? Read what's above and in Chris' post.
Those are the criminals. 'Xcept for one thing. They line people's pockets with cash who matter. Well, that's about to end. You watch and see.