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re: Now it's "Pharmacy Deserts" putting peoples lives at risk.
Posted on 11/12/23 at 7:47 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Posted on 11/12/23 at 7:47 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Desserts
Reminds me: drugstores should never have gotten rid of fountains.
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Posted on 11/12/23 at 8:12 pm to Vastmind
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It’s also due to Pharmacy Benefits Managers robbing pharmacies as well.
The fact that pharmaceutical middlemen are taking advantage of the situation should surprise no one since the prescription drug “market” is a government-sanctioned monopoly in every respect. The FTC overlooking such fraud is akin to the Mexican Cartels investigating street dealers for skimming profits off the top.
Posted on 11/12/23 at 8:19 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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quote: Often, the decision to close a chain pharmacy store is purely a business one
This is it. End of discussion. Private businesses owe no moral obligation to the community, only to its stock holders and employees.
If the people in the neighborhoods don’t want them to shut down then quit stealing from them to the point that they can’t financially keep the doors open.
Posted on 11/12/23 at 8:45 pm to Kingshakabooboo
How about getting an education and leaving these areas. I guess that’s asking too much
Posted on 11/12/23 at 9:13 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Not one mention of the rampant theft and looting that's causing pharmacies to leave these areas. When you have "members of the community" steal at will with no repercussions, businesses will pick up and leave
I know in this area, the closing of these places doesn't fix the problem. The thieves just come to our end of town to continue doing what they want.
Posted on 11/12/23 at 9:14 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Tell the people in the neighborhoods to stop stealing the pharmacies blind, then!
Posted on 11/12/23 at 9:16 pm to Vastmind
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It’s also due to Pharmacy Benefits Managers robbing pharmacies as well.
In fact the PBMs are worse than the looters.
Additionally, over zealous DEA policies are killing the brown poors fast.
We can thank the Unaffordable Care Act. Rural pharmacy deserts started becoming a problem a few years later.
Posted on 11/12/23 at 9:16 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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People living in pharmacy deserts also have more limited access to flu shots and vaccines for Covid-19.
Then the should be healthier
Posted on 11/12/23 at 9:23 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
The chains here suck. Poorly staffed. You wait forever, long lines. No one likes them. By chains I mean Walgreens and CSV. I'm pretty happy with Kroger.
Posted on 11/12/23 at 10:40 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Posted on 11/12/23 at 10:49 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Parmartist has to attend college for 8 years. A Pharmacy tech has to attend school close to 2 years. Pharmacy is under staff. If they close stores, they have look at under performing Pharmacy centers and staffing issues too not just including theft.
Posted on 11/12/23 at 11:50 pm to JCdawg
I can't imagine the porch piracy in rough neighborhoods
Posted on 11/12/23 at 11:58 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Thanks, Obama
Posted on 11/13/23 at 1:24 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Posted on 11/13/23 at 6:26 am to BeefSupreme
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In Los Angeles, one-third of all Black and Latino neighborhoods were pharmacy deserts — meaning that the average distance to the nearest pharmacy was 1 mile or more.
My closest pharmacy is over 1 mile away. Now I can complain because I live in a “pharmacy desert”.
Posted on 11/13/23 at 6:28 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Black, Latino, low-income, and uninsured households
Is there anything that doesn’t impact these groups?
I’d be embarrassed to be told this over and over.
Posted on 11/13/23 at 6:30 am to riverdiver
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My closest pharmacy is over 1 mile away. Now I can complain because I live in a “pharmacy desert”.
Yeah, 1 mile is a dumb metric. I live in a pharmacy desert and a food desert by that definition.
But I can easily walk 1 mile.
Posted on 11/13/23 at 6:31 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Not one mention of the rampant theft and looting that's causing pharmacies to leave these areas. When you have "members of the community" steal at will with no repercussions, businesses will pick up and leave
Exactly.
Companies/businesses are not obligated to be charities (or to put employees at risk)
Posted on 11/13/23 at 7:00 am to FightinTigersDammit
Think his point is that there aren't any pharmacies generally in rural areas, and those habitants are surviving in their "pharmacy desert". But somehow it's racist when urban dwellers loot and rob pharmacies blind and they have "no way of getting their medicine".
Posted on 11/13/23 at 7:01 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Well can't the CVS, Walgreens and RAs be replaced with the Wal Marts and Grocery stores that have pharmacies?
When will Dollar General finally get in the pharmacy business?
When will Dollar General finally get in the pharmacy business?
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