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Sorry to not address any of the replies on this thread, but your Original Post is striking.
Are you really on two drugs that are $10/day each? I understand your post is about the future of the pharmacy business, but $600/mo for drugs is madness. Absolute madness.
David you don't know the half of it. In my business I broker health insurance. these days I only do Medicare and because of this I deal with folks who are on a fixed/limited income and many are on quit a few drugs some of them very expensive. I have seen people who have as many as 20 prescription and many of them are very expensive if purchased over the counter. One of my biggest challanges is to find the plan that does the best job of covering their drug. I remember one individual who's out of pocket drug costs was over $13,000 per year. he wanted to change plans and the one he was looking at would have cost him over $16000. You see not all plans cover the same drugs and it is a balancing act to find the right plan. They all follow a formulary and not the the formulary's vary from plan to plan. I use a computer program to help me determine the drug costs under all the plans. in the case of the individual above I was able to get his total out of pocket costs down to less then $6000 per year. I had a pharmacist as me one day which was the best plan for drug and my answer was it depends on what drugs the person is taking. There are programs out there to get folks extra help with their prescription drug but one has to either work i the field every day to know what it takes to qualify for them. It is a shame because roughly half of the people in this country on social security would qualify for some sort help and don't know it.