On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 13:24:04 -0400, Bob Eff
wrote:

On 9/9/19 11:41 AM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 9 Sep 2019 03:27:50 -0700 (PDT), Cindy
Hamilton wrote:

On Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 4:02:20 PM UTC-4, Wade Gattett wrote:
On 9/7/19 8:58 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 9/7/19 7:30 PM, micky wrote:
OT Big increase in the number of drugstores


Is it just Baltimore or is it the whole country, or something in between
that, 10 or 20 years ago, had a big increase in the number of
drugstores?

All of a sudden they were building them everywhere.Â*Â* Tearing down other
stores to build branches of national chains.

Did this happen where you are?

How many years ago?

Why?Â* Does anyone know why?

It's not likely there were suddently so many more people getting medical
care.

Â*Â*Â*Â* Baby boomers.

...who ought to be smart enough to shop at the big boxes most of the
time rather than pay drug store chains' jacked up prices...

My insurance co-pay is the same wherever I get a prescription filled.

Cindy Hamilton

There was a private drugstore here that advertised it would mark down
the price of a presecription by the amount of the co-pay so that one
didnt' have to pay even the co-pay.

Isn't that illegal or a violation of insurance rules, either for the
pharmacist, the insured, or both?

The co-pay is meant to give a little discouragement from filling
unnecessary prescriptions (or going to the doctor for no good reason).
it's soemthing the insurance company wants you to have to pay, isn't it?

So I figured it was required too.

I actually knew the owner a little, he used to be a neighbor, but I
didn't have the nerve to call him just to ask him this.



It's a symbiotic relationship between the doctors, pharmaceutical and insurance companies. Raising prices helps all of them make more money.

Throw lawyers in there and you get the whole picture. For every
"wonder drug" they come out with there is some ambulance chaser on TV
asking if you ever had a bad reaction to it.