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sanguinesublime · 4 days ago

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^ This dismantling has been in process long before the united debacle (not to discredit the huge pressure it must have put on them) and a large part of that wasn't "one person" making a difference, but pharmacists and techs coming together to change things for themselves and their patients.

CVS buying insurances (who arbitrarily decide how much each pharmacy gets reimbursed for orders) and turning themselves into a conglomerate of CVS's-only that didn't function well in the first place, was the driving force. The legislation and unionization of pharmacies, the regulations of insurances, of working conditions for pharmacists and insurers, has all been going on long before Brian Thomson was a headline.

Would 100% recommend anyone interested in the breaking up of United and insurances like this to look into CVS, and what insurance their current CEO came from after they were forced to sell it off. They owned far more than just caremark up until recently.

#this is my pre-coffee scroll and idk if anyone will see ot anyways so im not #pulling up the texts again to check which #but when told they couldnt own either caremark or optum i believe?#they instead elected one of their heads as ceo #to get around it #but they were aquiring every single insurance and driving out any competition #and then buying the competition and direction prescriptions their way #while abusing employees and not having a safe practice w meds anyways #on the east coast pharmacists have begun to unionize #and cvs is being hit with fines. as well as penalties for abusing employees #its coming to the west #i have a feeling it being labeled with united in the bill is to distract from #the actual problem which has been going on for ages. and hoping more people look away from it bc ohhh terrorism affecting laws #except it is also making people think it had more of an impact than it did (as in. this was happening anyways)#and we all love this. collectively #this will not discourage anything lmao #especially bc united isnt the one doing it. or #not The One. at least. it's CVS.

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