The death knell of the private owned pharmacies…..and the future of getting prescriptions filled.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/pharmacy/pharmacy/112563?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2024-10-27&mh=22c3cd8ebe0a923b5ca6e6e20f1222e0&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%20-%20Randomized%202024-10-27&utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition
This story from small town Georgia highlights the massive crisis we have brewing in the pharmacy industry. Most of the small town local owned pharmacies have either closed, or they are being bought out by bigger chains. The days of personalized service are being eliminated thanks to pharmacy benefit managers, or PBM’s, who decide what a pharmacy gets paid for a med.
Why do you think they are going after the independent Main Street pharmacies? Because those are the places you get things like Ivermectin filled. The big box stores deny your fill, but independent pharmacies aren’t beholden to the government absurd rules. They also don’t force a flu and covid vax down your throat when you pick up your meds. The medical industrial complex doesn’t like these Mainstreet pharmacies. They want them gone. So they bankrupt them. And a big box pharmacy swoops in and buys them out.
They are making it impossible to have autonomy control over your healthcare. There are a few small independent pharmacies in my area, but one has stopped taking insurance at all now because if they don’t, they will go under. They do compounding so the need is there and people support them. We can’t lose these little independent pharmacies. They are the last stop in truly independent care.
Nothing is as effective at culling the population as a centrally planned economy. A diversified economy is resilient. If some elements make mistakes, then others are in a position to move in and fill the wants of the market. With a centrally planned economy a failure is universal. There is no back up. When the one Candidate implements her plan to nationalize the food supply, famine on an epic scale will follow. Just like everywhere else nationalizing the food supply has been tried. Of course, success and failure are subjective. If you want to kill off 10s of millions of citizens then this is a sweet deal. If you happen to be one of the people to be starved to death, not so much. A monopoly on pharmacy services is the latest step in rationed healthcare. We probably all have a "Social Responsibility" score "in the system". Soon that will determine whether or not you can fill a prescription. A final thought. Change is the only constant. Look at the big corporations that have failed and are no more. All the Cloud providers who went out of business and their customers lost their data. (And who knows where those servers went?) When Walgreens and CVS meet their eventual demise, who will pick up the slack? Because of the monopoly, there will just be a vacuum. Another example of the customer well served. Because they want us dead.
I had no idea about the threat to these independent pharmacies. Because of you, I am more aware of just how important this issue is.