WALGREENS IN SEATTLE REFUSES MEDICAIDE

If health care passes, this is our future. This is what happens when the free market is removed from the system. We will end up with government stores selling only the drugs that the government allows. So we'll have very little selection and the corruption bred by government involvement will cause the few we have to be of low quality, limited supply and high price. Of course, we won't see the price because the bills will be paid in Washington. Our money will be used to line the pockets of the chosen few. Isn't this exactly what the Progressives say is happening now?

"Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state (Wahington) 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."
Seattle Times