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hdntrzrs@aol.com - 01 Dec 2006 09:37 GMT

http://www.ng2000.com/news.php?tp=online;pharmacy

The last of Lompoc's independent, locally-owned pharmacies, Family
Pharmacy on East Ocean Avenue, shut its doors Wednesday after 18 years.
The immediate beneficiary is Walgreens, which purchased the firm's
assets and will employ all the staff.

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Pumbaa - 01 Dec 2006 15:29 GMT

> http://www.ng2000.com/news.php?tp=online;pharmacy
>
> The last of Lompoc's independent, locally-owned pharmacies, Family
> Pharmacy on East Ocean Avenue, shut its doors Wednesday after 18 years.
> The immediate beneficiary is Walgreens, which purchased the firm's
> assets and will employ all the staff.

Its been going on for a long time. Its even closing small town pharmacies.
I have a friend who's father owned a pharmacy (a pharmacist) and my friend
is also a pharmacist. He closed his store and that was the second
locally-owned pharmacy to close. The only chain in town is Wal*Mart. My
friend was just about living in his store and his wife was selling and
repairing jewerly. It finally got so she made more money on jewerly that he
did as a pharmacist. Now he works about an hours drive away in Alabama for
CVS.

Sometimes they fill five hundred Rxs a day. However he says when he leaves
work he can FORGET about the store which he never could when he was working
for himself. He actually has days off now from work.

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Salmon Egg - 01 Dec 2006 18:07 GMT

On 12/1/06 1:37 AM, in article
1164965851.822398.306210@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com, "hdntrzrs@aol.com"

I am sorry to hear that. I like dealing with a local small pharmacy. In
California, there is a law that, if asked, pharmacies have to supply drugs
to Medicare recipients at the same rates charged for dispensing drugs under
Medicaid. That turns out to be a pretty good deal for me if not for the
pharmacy. Even so, I find it MUCH cheaper to go to Canada for many drugs. If
I owned a family pharmacy, I would be thoroughly pissed off at the
Government for not doing what Canada does to keep wholesale drug costs down.

Medicare part D does not help much. Between premiums, deductibles,
co-payments, donut holes, and red tape, buying from Canada remains very
attractive.

Bill
-- Fermez le Bush

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Bob G. - 15 Dec 2006 11:28 GMT

. Even so, I find it MUCH cheaper to go to Canada for many drugs. If

>I owned a family pharmacy, I would be thoroughly pissed off at the
>Government for not doing what Canada does to keep wholesale drug costs down.
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>Bill
>-- Fermez le Bush

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Well I am a retired Pharmacist...and I take 8 different meds each day
myself...(talk about an experiment in drug interactions..!)

Honestly however what pisses me off is that instead of doing exactly
what you suggest they (The GUBerment) wants to allow drug importation.

Just makes absolutely no sense.. Sure would be nice to keep you as a
customer and make a buck ..

I do wish however that The US Goverment regulated the "cost" of
German Cars... sure would be nice to buy one here in the US of A
cheaper then a German Citizen can purchase one for in Germany..

I disagree however on Medicare part D... I think it was a big step
forward by our Pols...but I have not figured out how SS will ever pay
for it..

I'm not on Medicare yet...(only 63) and use my wives Health Insurance
which today 8 years after retiring will cost 12 times as much per
month as it did per month when we retired...

I was given an Rx just Monday for 15 Levaquin 500 mg... asked the
discharging Physician to change it to Cipro ...and got a lot of BULL
... yada yada yada...

Then I asked him if Levaquin would be a better buy "for me at $3.33
cents each (Insurance CoPay) then the Cipro (Generic) would be at 8
CENTS each...

I was wheeled out of the hospital with the Rx written for Cipro...

Bob G.

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