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Lil' John

On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:59:50 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:03:18 -0400, Gene
wrote:

On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:38:59 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:21:54 -0400, Gene
wrote:

Medicare pays a billion dollars a year for test strips that 20% are
faulty. That's capitalist America at work.

Are the ones from UK or Canada better?

Probably not, in fact, they are most likely the same ones. Thus, the
big issue I have is that all of them were probably made 50 miles from
where I am typing and shipped to the UK and Canada... but they pay
about 50% as much for those items as I do. I always have to stand in
long lines *here* to get the high dollar prescription filled....

So if the bloated US medical system didn't subsidize these things they
might not exist at all?

Bloating sure must incur significant expenses, but why does the VA pay
a different rate than I do?

I assume it is a negotiated price, one way or the other.

Your prescription problem sounds local.

And is probably headed your way. Recently, pharmacies have begun to
keep short hours and close on Sundays. This includes ones in grocery
stores (and there aren't many), Revco, Walgreens, Phar-mor, CVS,
Rite-Aid, Kerr..... etc. Note that the STORE might be open, but the
pharmacy is closed.

I am generally at the store in the middle of the day so what?
Of it helps them contain costs, that is what you can expect more of
under government managed health care.
You might reach a point where you have to go to a government pharmacy
that is only open 9-5 M-F and there are not very many of them. Ever
been in a state where the government is the only one to sell alcohol?
There might only be one state store in a town or even a county.

Publix (grocery store) fills
my prescriptions faster than I can buy my groceries. They also give
you most antibiotics for free.

Here, you aren't getting ANYTHING for free. Last antibiotics I was
prescribed cost ME $25.00 per pill after my insurance paid a few token
dollars.

I know they aren't really "free" but what they are saying is the
generic of the 5 most commonly prescribed antibiotics are so cheap at
the wholesale level that they can give them away to get you in their
store. A shrewd businessman would make the "free" prescriptions take
longer to fill, in hopes you would shop longer.

BTW the other good thing about Publix is they don't try to perpetuate
the mystique of prescription drugs. Most pharmacies try to tell you
this is a complicated process that takes an hour or more. Once your
profile is in the Publix computer they just type in the prescription,
count out the pills and put the label the computer spits out on the
bottle. If you have conflicting drugs, the computer will spit out a
warning right away. I assume it also compares your other prescriptions
and detects "doctor shopping" too but I have never heard of anyone
getting busted but I don't really know any abusers.

You won't miss the government run alcohol stores in New Hampshire if
you're on I-95. Both exits have the Alcohol Store right on the Exit
signs. It's unreal.
--

John H

H K

wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:59:01 -0400, Lil' John
wrote:

You won't miss the government run alcohol stores in New Hampshire if
you're on I-95. Both exits have the Alcohol Store right on the Exit
signs. It's unreal.
--

I know about NH. Last year we were looking for THE package store on
Conway.
I am used to Florida where they sell liquor at Walgreens and southern
Md where they will STILL sell you a mixed drink at the drive through.
(a fountain drink with ice and a miniature). If they know you they
will mix it in the window.

I was astonished when we lived to florida to see drive through windows
at the larger liquor stores. These and the "gentlemen's clubs" in Jax
were the constant targets of the religious nutcases. There was a
successfully titty bar on Blanding Boulevard and there were almost
always "church people" across the street carrying picket signs
protesting it. They brought their kids with them. By now, those kids
probably are patronizing the titty bar, if it is still there.

H the K

wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:34:54 -0400, H K
wrote:

wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:59:01 -0400, Lil' John
wrote:

You won't miss the government run alcohol stores in New Hampshire if
you're on I-95. Both exits have the Alcohol Store right on the Exit
signs. It's unreal.
--
I know about NH. Last year we were looking for THE package store on
Conway.
I am used to Florida where they sell liquor at Walgreens and southern
Md where they will STILL sell you a mixed drink at the drive through.
(a fountain drink with ice and a miniature). If they know you they
will mix it in the window.

I was astonished when we lived to florida to see drive through windows
at the larger liquor stores. These and the "gentlemen's clubs" in Jax
were the constant targets of the religious nutcases. There was a
successfully titty bar on Blanding Boulevard and there were almost
always "church people" across the street carrying picket signs
protesting it. They brought their kids with them. By now, those kids
probably are patronizing the titty bar, if it is still there.

The drive thrus are gone in SW Florida. They still have one right up
the road from my niece in Ridge Md.

Once you get to the end of Three Notch Road, you've gone back in time.
Way back. It's very country...even for southern southern Maryland.

H the K

wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:01:31 -0400, H the K
wrote:

wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:34:54 -0400, H K
wrote:

wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:59:01 -0400, Lil' John
wrote:

You won't miss the government run alcohol stores in New Hampshire if
you're on I-95. Both exits have the Alcohol Store right on the Exit
signs. It's unreal.
--
I know about NH. Last year we were looking for THE package store on
Conway.
I am used to Florida where they sell liquor at Walgreens and southern
Md where they will STILL sell you a mixed drink at the drive through.
(a fountain drink with ice and a miniature). If they know you they
will mix it in the window.
I was astonished when we lived to florida to see drive through windows
at the larger liquor stores. These and the "gentlemen's clubs" in Jax
were the constant targets of the religious nutcases. There was a
successfully titty bar on Blanding Boulevard and there were almost
always "church people" across the street carrying picket signs
protesting it. They brought their kids with them. By now, those kids
probably are patronizing the titty bar, if it is still there.
The drive thrus are gone in SW Florida. They still have one right up
the road from my niece in Ridge Md.

Once you get to the end of Three Notch Road, you've gone back in time.
Way back. It's very country...even for southern southern Maryland.

Except for that three mile strip mall between California and Lex Park.

The end of Three Notch to which I was referring "ends" in the area where
your niece lives. The "other end" goes by the strip malls and beyond, on
the way to Waldorf.

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