All Hail Walmart Again!

Folks,

WalMart plans to test market an offer of a months supply of 261 different drugs
for $4.

"Each day in our pharmacies we see customers struggle with the cost of
prescription drugs,"
said Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott, Jr., in a statement. "By cutting the cost of
many generics to
$4, we are helping to ensure that our customers and associates get the medicines
they need
at a price they can afford."

Of course there has never been any reason why poor people could not walk into a
store and
buy their own drugs with their own money, just as they go in and buy a box of
laundry soap.

As a practial matter, the drug biz has been rigged to make drugs rare,
expensive, shoddy and
slow to market, so the poor suffer.

Of course, the Walmart relief to the poor will be found to be illegal somehow,
so it will end,
but it shows it can be done.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060921/D8K9A7TO7.html

JOhn

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