CVS Agenda

[Indydealmaker]

Now you know one of the main reasons why CVS chose to yank tobacco products from their shelves.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cvs-plays-hardball-with-rival-drug-chains-151632033.html

[rubicon]

CVS Care Mark are very savvy business people. This situation is just one more example of the goings on in health care because of the ACA laws.

As a sidebar we have once again an attack on tobacco when at the same time their is a push for legalization of marijuana....what a country

[Sandtrap328]

I say it is a good thing that CVS has decided not to sell tobacco products. Darn good business practice to offer lower prices than at drug stores selling tobacco. Would I use them to save $15 each time for drug items? You bet I would!

I do not see what this practice has to do with the Affordable Care Act. Just good business acumen.

[sunnyatlast]

Some ate that up, like it was pure benevolence.

[jblum315]

I knew there had to be something behind it other than pure benevolence. CVS losing money to make money. Good business practice in disguise.

[njbchbum]

I say it is a good thing that CVS has decided not to sell tobacco products. Darn good business practice to offer lower prices than at drug stores selling tobacco. Would I use them to save $15 each time for drug items? You bet I would!

I do not see what this practice has to do with the Affordable Care Act. Just good business acumen.

So how does this become a good thing to the family that has prescription coverage through Caremark but does not have a tobacco-free pharmacy in their area to fill the 10 day script for their child's augmentin? They should be penalized because they don't live near a tobacco-free pharmacy?

[Chi-Town]

Six percent of Caremark's customers who have precriptions filled for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease make a cigarette purchase at the same time. So now they'll have to pay more to ease the discomfort that smoking aggravates.

[Villages PL]

Let's wait and see what the FTC has to say about this. It doesn't seem like a fair trade practice, especially due to the fact that CVS can't prove that their plan will stop people from smoking. That means their plan is just a strategy to grab more of the prescription drug business away from other pharmacies.

That's what it looks like to a non-drug user like me. ;)

[Chi-Town]

Waiting for Federal Trade Commission intervention sounds like big government to me.

[applesoffh]

If CVS really cared about anyone's health, they would stop selling candy, chips, soda and other junk foods.

[Polar Bear]

If CVS really cared about anyone's health, they would stop selling candy, chips, soda and other junk foods.


Not this again. Candy/chips/soda=tobacco. Yeah...right.