"Moral" Pharmacy Closes For Lack of Business

[Aimeey7]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/12/AR2010041204107.html

Interesting.
For one, I can't quite get the glee the writer seems to express over the closing.
I mean, its not as if in the DC suburbs there aren't plenty of alterrnatives.

On the other side, I don't mind a pharmacy operating this way, I wouldn't patronize one, but I have no problem with them doing as they wish-- EXCEPT if I gave them a prescription that they didn't want to fill out of moral reasons AND refused to give it back to me, I;d kick their ass and take it back. That's way over the line.

Then, back to the other side, the writer seems to think if it was a rural area without close alternatives, the pharmacy should be forced to sell everything regardless of their own business/moral preferences.

[beeker]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/12/AR2010041204107.html
On the other side, I don't mind a pharmacy operating this way, I wouldn't patronize one, but I have no problem with them doing as they wish-- EXCEPT if I gave them a prescription that they didn't want to fill out of moral reasons AND refused to give it back to me, I;d kick their ass and take it back. That's way over the line.

That part is a bit out of whack, unless there is some legal question there is no justification for confiscating some ones prescription without filling it.

[Aimeey7]

I should say that the Pharmacy that is the subject of this article did not do that;
Accodring to the article SOME individual Pharmacists have reportedly done that at other places.

[Wiener]

And the free market ruled and they went under, next insane business idea please?

[redcap]

How about a simple government bailout!

[Wiener]

How about a simple government bailout!

For a drug store that doesn't carry condoms or contraseptives?  Not with Obamamoney, we must ensure the mistakes don't make it to the living side.

[Aimeey7]

And the free market ruled and they went under, next insane business idea please?

Actually, it appears to work in some areas, but to even think it would in suburban DC, hope they revoke their MBA's on that one.