The free market may do what all the Presidential candidates only wish they could do: help lower health care costs.
Already Wal Mart started offering $4 prescriptions on generics. Now Publix is offering free prescriptions on certain medications.
The plan is being tested in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina.
From Sun-Sentinal.com
Publix supermarket chain said today it will make seven common prescription antibiotics available for free, joining other major retailers in trying to lure customers to their stores with cheap medications.
The oral antibiotics, representing the most commonly filled at the chain’s pharmacies, will be available at no cost to anyone with a prescription as often as they need them, Publix CEO Charlie Jenkins Jr. said. Fourteen-day supplies of the seven drugs will be available at all 684 of the chain’s pharmacies in five Southern states.
The prescription antibiotics available under the program are amoxicillin, cephalexin, penicillin VK, erythromycin, ampicillin, sulfamethoxazole/ trimethoprim, and ciprofoxacin.
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