Unfortunately, many of the small, local pharmacies that have been providing you with personal care are closing their doors as a result of exclusive contracts between large pharmacy chains and healthcare insurance providers. Corporate America is taking profits from the pockets of hard-working, middle class Americans who have little choice of who their healthcare insurance company will be. This is all going on while putting your health at risk. Insurance companies and large pharmacy chains get together and agree to control how their patients buy medicine. Patients will be directed to go only to chain stores for their prescriptions and in return, the insurance companies will pay discounted prices for your medication.
Insurance companies answer only to shareholders and are constantly concerned with the bottom line.
Let's be real. Many middle class Americans don't have much of a choice of healthcare insurance companies. The businesses for which middle class Americans work often don't allow their employees to choose healthcare insurance companies. Many times, if there are choices, employees are limited to only two or three different insurance companies at the most. Insurance companies defend these practices by claiming that healthcare costs are climbing and this is a good way to control those costs.