Not for nothing though... and you youngsters may have been born too late to really observe it, but it's important to note the following:
There was a yardstick for towns in America, whether they were good or not so good neighborhoods, by how many bars they had. It was a stigma, and I believe still is, if your town "had a bar on every corner" because it was a yardstick of good wholesome living, being a productive member of society vs being an unemployed bum, making stupid decisions and getting drunk instead if working or caring for your family.
So closing down corner bars and cleaning up the town was a real thing in the 80s.
Since about 1990, there was a push to build these chain "drug stores" like CVS, Rite-Aid, Walgreens etc and they QUICKLY replaced the bars on the corner. In many towns in the USA, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one these days... and old school apothecaries and pharmacies, where you knew them and they knew you, started to get replaced by these mega chain, rude impersonal box stores.
Seriously... one town over, there's a strip of NOTHING BUT these box stores (not including Wally mart, AND the local food store with a pharmacy to get in on the action) - there's CVS, Walgreens, Rite-Aid, Eckard, and one other I can't remember - exactly - right next to one another.
AND there's not just the local hospital, but all these "medical campuses" and endless doctors offices - that are ALL part of a bigger hospital or "health system" because the days of the independent doctor is GONE - malpractice insurance, student loans, setting up shop as a new doctor is practically impossible now - EVERYBODY HAS to be part of a big medical machine now...Oh and good luck getting an appointment for many if these doctors anywhere - they're booked out solid for 6 months...
Just what in the hell have we done to ourselves???
When I was a kid, Mom took me to the pediatrician and she paid maybe $25 for the visit. Then the pharmacy...it was what, like $8 for amoxicillin and $4 for Actifed C/D whatever...(That old school Dimetapp...grapity grape!) - Now it's a complete shit show of insurance cards, prescription plans, oh this asshole isn't in your network...then rude "should be working the back room at the DMV" bitch at one if these box pharmacies - you gotta put up with their bullshit...
Just an ENDLESS STRING of people that REALLY DON'T give a shit about YOU or your health - they just want that money. Relative had to stay overnight on hospital... those assholes TEXTED them the bill before he was discharged! TEXTED IT!! Zero bedside manner! 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻
It didn't used to be like that AT ALL, people...
This medical industrial complex is EXACTLY like the military industrial complex - keep muckerin us down with the sickness (war or dis-ease) and profit off us...
Learn to eat right and listen to your body so you can avoid this machine as much as possible...
Now don't get me started on obese nurses telling you to watch your cholesterol...🙄🙄🙄
Yeah...go ruin Europe for a while...
It's already half way there
Not for nothing though... and you youngsters may have been born too late to really observe it, but it's important to note the following:
There was a yardstick for towns in America, whether they were good or not so good neighborhoods, by how many bars they had. It was a stigma, and I believe still is, if your town "had a bar on every corner" because it was a yardstick of good wholesome living, being a productive member of society vs being an unemployed bum, making stupid decisions and getting drunk instead if working or caring for your family.
So closing down corner bars and cleaning up the town was a real thing in the 80s.
Since about 1990, there was a push to build these chain "drug stores" like CVS, Rite-Aid, Walgreens etc and they QUICKLY replaced the bars on the corner. In many towns in the USA, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one these days... and old school apothecaries and pharmacies, where you knew them and they knew you, started to get replaced by these mega chain, rude impersonal box stores.
Seriously... one town over, there's a strip of NOTHING BUT these box stores (not including Wally mart, AND the local food store with a pharmacy to get in on the action) - there's CVS, Walgreens, Rite-Aid, Eckard, and one other I can't remember - exactly - right next to one another.
AND there's not just the local hospital, but all these "medical campuses" and endless doctors offices - that are ALL part of a bigger hospital or "health system" because the days of the independent doctor is GONE - malpractice insurance, student loans, setting up shop as a new doctor is practically impossible now - EVERYBODY HAS to be part of a big medical machine now...Oh and good luck getting an appointment for many if these doctors anywhere - they're booked out solid for 6 months...
Just what in the hell have we done to ourselves???
When I was a kid, Mom took me to the pediatrician and she paid maybe $25 for the visit. Then the pharmacy...it was what, like $8 for amoxicillin and $4 for Actifed C/D whatever...(That old school Dimetapp...grapity grape!) - Now it's a complete shit show of insurance cards, prescription plans, oh this asshole isn't in your network...then rude "should be working the back room at the DMV" bitch at one if these box pharmacies - you gotta put up with their bullshit...
Just an ENDLESS STRING of people that REALLY DON'T give a shit about YOU or your health - they just want that money. Relative had to stay overnight on hospital... those assholes TEXTED them the bill before he was discharged! TEXTED IT!! Zero bedside manner! 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻
It didn't used to be like that AT ALL, people...
This medical industrial complex is EXACTLY like the military industrial complex - keep muckerin us down with the sickness (war or dis-ease) and profit off us...
Learn to eat right and listen to your body so you can avoid this machine as much as possible...
Now don't get me started on obese nurses telling you to watch your cholesterol...🙄🙄🙄