This is even more ridiculous. Found at Shoppers. That's $6.43 with tax. For a 200 g bag. Before Loblaws bought Shoppers they were pretty competitive on these sorts of things. Loblaws has changed them into 24 hour convenience stores that also sell you oxy if you have a prescription.
@Snowshadow
Exclusivity on high ticket, high profit drugs, of course...
"used to treat complex, chronic or life-threatening conditions such as Cancer, Crohn's rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, pulmonary arterial hypertension, osteoporosis & hepatitis C.
"I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one." The now-famous quip from @rbreich cuts to the bone of corporate personhood. Corporations are people with speech rights. They are heat-shields that absorb liability on behalf of their owners and managers.
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Judge Jones is a Texas judge - as in "Texas Two-Step" - and he has a long history of allowing corporate murderers and thieves to escape with their fortunes intact and their victims penniless:
But David Jones's reign of error is now in limbo. It turns out that he was secretly romantically involved with #ElizabethFreeman, a leading Texas corporate bankruptcy lawyer who argues Texas Two-Step cases in front of her boyfriend, Judge David Jones.
"In less than one year, #Ontario has become one of the leading jurisdictions in #Canada at providing healthcare services through 3rd party for-profit investor-owned shareholder pharmacies"
"Practising medicine is not "an assessment" It is a history, physical exam, differential diagnosis, testing where needed, plan for follow-up & documentation accessible to others.
Ontario could support publicly funded primary care, but it chooses for-profit corporate earnings"
"Historically in Ontario the conflict-of-interest between diagnosing and selling [medication] was respected."
No more.
"The #DougFord government simply favours the private wealth of the few instead of the health of the many with the persistent corporatization of healthcare."
"Premier #DougFord won the last #Ontario election, but he does NOT have a mandate to give away our publicly funded healthcare system to for-profit investor-owned shareholder-driven corporations."
👉 Loblaw / Maple / Shoppers is now charging patients $79.99 for a monthly membership fee. That is $959.88 per patient per year just to access healthcare.
The #pharmacy#chain in question, which is happy to give both your #prescription (and presumably #vaccination) #records to pretty much anyone who wants them, in addition to letting them see when your prescriptions are eligible for refill, order those refills, and turn on OR OFF automatic fills for your prescripts is ...
Following links on the Shoppers' site, privacy issues are directed to the Chief Privacy Officer at Loblaws, their parent corporation. #Loblaws bought #Shoppers some years ago in a megamerger.
Shoppers is, I believe, the single largest source of #Canadians' #prescriptions. So this affects a lot of Canadians.
I tried to engage in #responsible#disclosure. I emailed the person in question, twice. I have the logs from my email server showing the messages getting to them.