15 Comments

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.

Expand full comment

However, about 95% of the medications out there make us sicker. This could easily backfire by forcing the general populous to take better care of themselves.

Expand full comment

I really hope it works out that way.

Expand full comment

I pray for the great reduction of big pharma junkies. Those people take medications that are layered to treat the side effects of the parent medication. That medication hierarchy can go many levels deep, very sad.

Expand full comment

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.

Expand full comment

7/8 is below the waterline.

That 7/8 got the Titanic.

The bureaucracy loves to be known, but unseen beneath.

They love the fact most consumers are only vaguely aware of the 1/8 and think everything covered is free.

Expand full comment

As usual you report on what is happening in the very communities where we live. We have 1 independent, Farmer Oconee, in Oconee County GA. Publix and CVS are 2 blocks away.

No phone trees, personalized service, good hours, same or less cost than the biggies. No problem getting IVM during Covid or even now for other off label use. That's a litmus test going forward.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL PHARMACY or soon it will disappear.

Expand full comment

THE JUGGERNAUT. Always remember, one key purpose of the “corporation” is to hide ownership. This is the cabal in their march toward total enslavement. I read last week that if BlackRock’s AUM (assets under management) were a GDP, it would rank third in the world after US and China.

Expand full comment

Monopoly is not just a board game.

Expand full comment

I wonder if the independent pharmacies were issued a larger or 100% proportion of saline covid shots. You don't want owners to suspect they are poisoning their customers.

Expand full comment

Most of them didn’t do covid vaccinations. The biggies like CVS and Walgreens got the huge government contracts to do the covid shots. There may be a few that did administer the arm darts, but it was mostly big box pharmacies. 🙏🏻

Expand full comment

We cannot have a $1 pill be the solution to the fake virus we created ... or whatever it is. Just as soon as we can see a virus, and we never have, I will believe there is such a thing. So between now and then I will call this a man made disease. The uniparty have been attacking small businesses for decades now. The big corporations who own the corrupt main stream media, should have been broken up. We have several precedents using the Sherman Antitrust Act and other tools to do so. These massive corporations, who control everything, were purposely put together.

Expand full comment

The “PBM’s siphon $400 billion” of the drug costs. Odd- if this was Mexico wouldn’t the name for PBM be synonymous with The Cartel?

Expand full comment

The closest compounding pharmacy is in the state capital 60 miles away from me. There was one here in town in the 80s or 90s. 🙄

Expand full comment