I go to Target because CVS is the pharmacy inside the store. There is a CVS stand alone location, but for me it’s in a inconvenient location. I’m on two medications, without insurance coverage for drugs, and CVS has the best price. Now recently CVS went into my grocery store, but I don’t think I’ll switch. Target has a better price on kitty litter than Petsmart up the road.
Walmart and Target are in the same shopping center, but I try to avoid Walmart.
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Not advertising anything in particular, but have you looked in to GoodRx? It’s a prescription drug program not affiliated with any insurance program.
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I am so sorry you have to deal with this.
We need to be more sympathetic with our conservative friends animosity to evolution.
After all, they probably feel left out of the process.
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One of the very constructive changes the CDC may be able to push through would be to restore rural health clinics in the southern black belt regions. In Georgia, for example, we don’t even have data on the number of covid deaths in the rural black belt because there is NO medical care of any kind available to these people. We know the death rate went up substantially during the pandemic and that’s about all we know. Rural clinics that used to service these communities have been eliminated. There are no hospitals. And so many of these communities don’t even have a doctor living among them. It’s miles and miles and miles to any sort of health facility.
The other thing the federal government could do is to mandate the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. With only two exceptions (LA and AR), no southern states have the Medicaid expansion – which leaves these rural, poor black belt regions without the means to obtain healthcare even if they can travel to it. Make Medicaid a federally run program, with delegation to states only if they show the willingness and ability to make it work. We do this already with the Clean Water Act. Do it with Medicaid too.
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… and how many people haven’t bothered to try making an appointment because they assume it’s crazy and they will never get one. My hope is that we can redirect public health staff from managing the queue of eager vaccinatees to figuring out who hasn’t gotten theirs and what help they need - a ride? a mobile clinic so they don’t have to navigate the convention center? A chance to tell a dr that they are worried and scared?
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A friend and I used to regularly sing a sort of hymn that was composed for Darwin’s funeral. Based on Proverbs 3, it praised Wisdom, my favorite line attesting that "all her paths are peace.”
Alas I did not personally attend Darwin’s funeral, but I often wish I’d had the chance to say a proper goodbye.
I did say a proper goodbye to my friend. He died nearly two decades ago.
And I still regularly sing the hymn, but with younger people who’ve learned it.
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Yes I did, and that’s where I saw the better pricing. When I first went to them they actually offered me a little bit lower price. I stay with them because I don’t like change. They’ve been helpful, and after coming from Walgreens the line for picking up a prescription is laughably so short.
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It really isn’t a big deal. They’re generics, and it’s my choice to spend about a quarter of the cost to have two different insurance companies’ coverage, then spend to spend over a thousand dollars a month for things I don’t need or use in coverage from a major insurance company.
I found this to be true with my Mom’s Medicare Advantage coverage. The cost was great with the coverage of many things she used when she was younger. But once your health declines to the point where you’re paying for way more coverage than you actually use, then I switched her to regular Medicare.
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Very glad to hear this!
Thanks.
I’m dealing with that conversion now for myself. I’m signed up for Medicare A and B, but still researching C & D.
I have until June to figure it out.
And then I get to do it all again when I move from Wisconsin to Connecticut because coverage is often State-based.
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I basically made the change once Mom left assisted living and into a nursing home. Once she was in a nursing home she wasn’t seeing her regular doctor, she didn’t need a “silver sneakers” exercise program, and the thing that always bothered me was when someone would call once a year to set up an in-home medical check up. Mostly it annoyed me because the call came a week or two after her regularly scheduled bi-annual check up.
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Slightly OT:
My kids at the farm report that they are at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut today - they’re getting their first vaccinations!! It’s wonderful news!
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There was a 6 part film about white supremacy on HBO this week that was simply amazing. Called Exterminate All the Brutes.
Just amazing. I knew everything that was in the documentary but the way it was laid out was so damning. We’re monsters.
And DMX has died.
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Somehow this happened without a police officer in the vicinity.
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He finally managed to fulfill his death wish - he did it to himself.
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Detroit acquired a small fleet (8 vehicles) of covid-designed cars in March 2020. They have separate airflows for driver and passenger/s, easily cleanable interiors that are smooth and sleek so they can be disinfected quickly and thoroughly. They’ve been in service this whole time ferrying Detroiters without transportation for drive-through testing and now also for vaccinations at the dozen vaccination sites now operating in the City. You have to make a reservation and it costs $2 for this service – just enough to keep people from frivolous joy riding.
If Detroit (still under bankruptcy consent decree) can do this, other cities can too.
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That’s a great idea. I hope it gets shared widely. Even after the pandemic there’s a lot of social services that are hard to reach by bus.
There are probably a lot of other innovations out there that could be rolled out - but it’s really hard to step back and see what you’re missing when everyone’s been diverted to answering the phones
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why quotes on serious threat ? you don’t believe it ?
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Just happens to be part of the language that was used, so it’s (sort of) a quotation.