NEWS: Supermarket Special: Free Drugs

wait...they are giving away free ANTIBIOTICS? am I the only one that thinks this is a BAD idea?there are only a few drugs that ought to be free and those are oxycontin, percosets and prozac (which now comes in cherry flavor, apparently) but by no means should people be given free antibiotics...

although I SUPPOSE they will probably still need a perscription at least...I mean, I guess they probably won't be handing out penicilin popsicles to everyone who asks...but still. If people know they can get them for free, they are more likely to go to the doctor and if they are prescribed then we'll have a lot more superbugs out there.

This is pretty much what I am thinking.

*sigh*

Customers still need a prescription for the drugs. Hopefully that will keep things under control.

Actually my point was that people in general are stupid. I never said anything about "poor" people. I said people will stop as they do NOW and apply different reasoning to it. If you don't want to take any meds at all that is perfectly fine with me though.

Yes! One more reason to love Publix. And they have the best subs!

Wal-Mart has been selling 331 generic meds for $4 per 30-day dose for a while now, and five of the seven free Publix meds are on that list. And you still need a doctor's prescription to get them in the first place. I seriously doubt that a four-dollar savings is going to make much of a difference in people's behavior one way or the other.

Yera, but if they're free, then they should be more willing to actually take all that they're supposed to take instead of saving some, which is the real danger of openly available antibiotics.

Given that the two roles you named aren't even played by the same PERSON, I'd say you're definitely hopped up on something more than just free antibiotics.
For you, I'm picturing a terrifying world like the trapped in your id scene from Being John Malkovich, except everyone's head is Steve Buscemi's. That is a bad, bad trip.

Ah. Sorry, my bad. On reflection, I can't immediately see a reason why this would automatically be a bad thing. Though I think the UK system - which used to provide prescription drugs free at point of demand, or whatever the phrase is - is better since the user had to pay to collect. (It's not a huge amount, last time I needed any. Lucky me.)

Good to hear, the closer we come to socialized healthcare the better.