Drugstores Onboard With Obamacare

[Star]

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Rite Aid, CVS, Walgreen...

Drugstores Onboard With Obamacare

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But perhaps most importantly, the administration's alliances with major national retailers has been especially fruitful. In July, for example, CVS Caremark joined the effort to encourage Americans to sign up for health care benefits and learn about new coverage options.

At the time, conservatives like Erick Erickson suggested an informal boycott might be in order, bringing their business to Walgreens. That, of course, was made more difficult by the realization that Walgreens has partnered with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association to promote the health law, too.

Maybe anti-healthcare conservatives will start relying exclusively on Rite Aid, instead? Nope.

Rite Aid Corporation announced that it will host licensed insurance agents at nearly 2,000 locations across the country starting Oct. 1 to teach customers about the new insurance exchanges. The agents will meet one-on-one with patients, who will be able to sign up for coverage on the spot, the company said. The pharmacies will also distribute written materials about ObamaCare.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius praised Rite Aid's plans while visiting a store location in Hoboken, N.J.... Insurance agents participating Rite Aid's effort will receive specific training related to the Affordable Care Act, according to Rite Aid Chairman John Standley.
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This is certainly good news for those who hope to see the health care system work more effectively on behalf of American consumers, but let's also be clear about the financial motivations. Rite Aid, like its competitors, is making a business decision -- the goal is to make money, and helping connect a growing pool of consumers to newly available coverage will improve the bottom line.

What's wrong with this? Nothing. The public will have more health care security and drugstores will have more customers. [win-win]


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[Joe Steel]

... This is certainly good news for those who hope to see the health care system work more effectively on behalf of American consumers, but let's also be clear about the financial motivations. Rite Aid, like its competitors, is making a business decision -- the goal is to make money, and helping connect a growing pool of consumers to newly available coverage will improve the bottom line.

What's wrong with this? Nothing. The public will have more health care security and drugstores will have more customers.

America has committed itself to a for-profit health care system. It's a bad idea and we should try for something better but as long as we're stuck with it, we might as well make use of what we have.

 

[Katzndogz]

Drugstores have agreed to perform whatever acts the government requests they perform, including promoting obamacare. There is nothing to indicate that the drug store companies themselves are on-board with anything.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Drugstores have agreed to perform whatever acts the government requests they perform, including promoting obamacare. There is nothing to indicate that the drug store companies themselves are on-board with anything.

The evidence if of course obvious that they are onboard, but, as usual for a far righty reactionary, you simply refuse to believe it despite the evidence.

No one cares.

 

[Katzndogz]

If they are onboard you haven't provided any evidence that they are doing no more than paddling in the same direction because they were told to.

 

[Star]

Drugstores have agreed to perform whatever acts the government requests they perform, including promoting obamacare. There is nothing to indicate that the drug store companies themselves are on-board with anything.

hahahaha - pull you head out dude/dudette yer makin' me dizzy, y'all been told over and over and
over again privateers are going to make lots-o-dough on Obamacare. But-----but if you're not
convinced major drugstore chains don't support profit centers being set up in their stores, check out
what the uber-rightwing/T-publican website has to say...
CVS STORES AIDING OBAMACARE? - Patriot Action Network

Republican pitchforkers should be asking themselves why their leaders hate capitalism?
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[Defiant1]

Drugstores have agreed to perform whatever acts the government requests they perform, including promoting obamacare. There is nothing to indicate that the drug store companies themselves are on-board with anything.

hahahaha - pull you head out dude/dudette yer makin' me dizzy, y'all been told over and over and
over again privateers are going to make lots-o-dough on Obamacare. But-----but if you're not
convinced major drugstore chains don't support profit centers being set up in their stores, check out
what the uber-rightwing/T-publican website has to say...
CVS STORES AIDING OBAMACARE? - Patriot Action Network

Republican pitchforkers should be asking themselves why their leaders hate capitalism?
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Thanks for the info, I'll get my wife's prescriptions transferred immediately.

Somewhere else.

 

[whitehall]

Pretty pathetic to be celebrating because drug store chains fell in line with the administration. What do you expect them to do when they have to comply with government regulations or go under? Ask the big unions how they feel and all the other Americans who will be impacted by a 10,000 word law that nobody understands.

 

[dblack]

Pretty pathetic to be celebrating because drug store chains fell in line with the administration. What do you expect them to do when they have to comply with government regulations or go under? Ask the big unions how they feel and all the other Americans who will be impacted by a 10,000 word law that nobody understands.

Obey

 

[whitehall]

Pretty pathetic to be celebrating because drug store chains fell in line with the administration. What do you expect them to do when they have to comply with government regulations or go under? Ask the big unions how they feel and all the other Americans who will be impacted by a 10,000 word law that nobody understands.

Obey

I imagine Stalin would agree.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Drugstores have agreed to perform whatever acts the government requests they perform, including promoting obamacare. There is nothing to indicate that the drug store companies themselves are on-board with anything.

hahahaha - pull you head out dude/dudette yer makin' me dizzy, y'all been told over and over and
over again privateers are going to make lots-o-dough on Obamacare. But-----but if you're not
convinced major drugstore chains don't support profit centers being set up in their stores, check out
what the uber-rightwing/T-publican website has to say...
CVS STORES AIDING OBAMACARE? - Patriot Action Network

Republican pitchforkers should be asking themselves why their leaders hate capitalism?
.

Thanks for the info, I'll get my wife's prescriptions transferred immediately.

Somewhere else.

And, just where would that be?

The only way you can go on paying higher prices for scrips is if you go to some really backward country.

Very comical the way the rw's are so desperately hanging on to paying more and getting less.