Canada

“There’s a lack of access to physicians,” Shoppers president Jeff Leger says. “One in five Canadians don’t have access to a primary care provider. There’s lots of great solutions, but they take time to mature, and get more doctors. So people are turning to pharmacists and other professionals to help fill those gaps.”

The people who fixed the price of your bread are now practicing disaster capitalism on our healthcare.

Hundreds of Loblaw’s own pharmacists have told the country’s largest pharmacy regulator that they have felt pressure to put the bottom line ahead of patient care.

Shockingly, they aren't even doing a good job at it.

How about we just tax millionaires & billionaires more and use that money to fund the public system?

Society used to work when marginal tax rates were much higher. It stopped working when we let the rich get richer at the expense of the rest of us.

Anyone with half a brain knows private healthcare is a scam

Hell no - I stopped shopping at Loblaws since the boycott and I haven’t missed Shoppers Drug Mart one bit. I know that Shoppers is only one component of this health care empire but if it’s any indication, I won’t be needing anything else from Per Bank either. 🫡🫡🫡

Suck it, Loblaws.

Loblaw/Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacists work on quotas, and the pressure to dispense as quickly as possible causes them to miss obvious and serious drug interactions. The quota system for prescriptions is an actual pressing threat to patient safety.

In BC, if you take more than 3 prescription drugs, pharmacists can bill the province for a medication review (around $80 last time I checked). The medication review is supposed to be a minimum of 30 minutes, improve the patient's treatment plan, etc. SDM would literally turn this into a pure box-checking exercise to claim the $80 in 3 minutes or less.

Oh, and they charge for injecting a vaccine into you (a 3 minute activity and for most vaccines, something you could train a monkey to do). In comparison, independent pharmacists tend not to charge injection fees because they'd rather you come back as a repeat customer than treat you as a cash pig.

Fuuuuuck no.

Trust? No. But all they actually need is resignation.

Pricing fixing corporate trash.

But can it earn the trust of Canadian patients?

How can any Canadian patient trust a company who is STILL being caught for price fixing, gouging shoppers, and lying about why their grocery prices are high?

Why gain the trust of the people when you can just pay off the right politicians?

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