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CVS California: 7000 employees strike. "I work full-time yet can’t afford to get health insurance, which is ridiculous, because CVS owns Aetna" (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Holy shit, I had no idea CVS owned Aetna. That kind of vertical should never be allowed, that's insane. Man I hope our kickass FTC chair Lina Kahn gets 4 more years, she's been doing yeoman's work against 40 years of no enforcement, hope she gets to keep digging into this crap.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bought cough drops at a CVS once. They were like 4x the price of the grocery store. It's no wonder their insurance sucks. Also, yes, verticals like that should not exist.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The crazy part is the pharmacy retailers are now closing hundreds of locations nationwide. For those who have a reliable mail order maybe that works but there are so many situations when you "absolutely positively have to get a prescription on short noticeand can accept no substitutes" retail has to exist.

Hope mark Cuban can make a dent.

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