Thursday, March 18, 2010

Government run pharmacies?

I guess that is what is coming next. No politician has talked about it. But if they get ObamaCare why wouldn't they try and get government run pharmacies? Walgreens just announced they aren't going to take any new Medicaid patients because they don't many any money filling their prescriptions.

Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoing dispute over Medicaid reimbursement.

The company, which operates 121 stores in the state, will continue filling Medicaid prescriptions for current patients.

In a news release, Walgreens said its decision to not take new Medicaid patients stemmed from a "continued reduction in reimbursement" under the state's Medicaid program, which reimburses it at less than the break-even point for 95 percent of brand-name medications dispensed to Medicaid patents.

I'm not genius but if the government isn't going to pay pharmacies enough money to even make a small profit from filling prescriptions why would pharmacies do it? So if every pharmacy tells the government to go screw who is going to fill ObamaCare prescriptions? Government run pharmacies.

We are well on our way to socialism...

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