kengr

Listening to all the news items about Walmart's new prescription deal (generic drugs as low as $4/month) that they've introduced in Florida and are planning on spreading to the rest of the country sometime next year I had a few thoughts.

My first thought was that besides being a "loss leader" it might also be a Standard Oil type move to drive competitors out of business.

My latter thought was a sudden recollection that Walmart is one of the chains that has being letting pharmacists refuse to fill prescriptions for "moral" reasons. Mostly morning after pills and normal birth control stuff.

That got me wondering if someone was *planning* this. Just the way one "medical group" in the South was buying up hospitals that did abortions and SRS and the like and then telling the doctors they couldn't do that in their facilities any more. (That's why Portland is no longer an SRS center).

That group went bankrupt not too long after they drove Dr. Bowers to relocate. But the damage they did in the meantime. And that other groups are still doing.

Don't make things illegal, just make it impossible to *get* them. Like many places tried (and too many succeeded) to do with adult businesses.