{"id":3550,"date":"2012-01-24T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T18:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2012-01-25T13:29:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:29:51","slug":"pharmacy-markups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/pharmacy-markups\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy Markups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many people would honestly do price comparison shopping when it comes to purchasing simple prescribed medicine from the doctor?  I think for most the natural assumption is when the doctor give you the prescription note you would then simply give it to a pharmacist and get the prescription.  Today I was being told how most pharmacies that are located say within the same building of a medical building or doctors office tend to jack up the prices.  Granted that may be due to various issues such as building rental fees that may cost more.  To me I guess that is just like any other company charging a premium for the convenience factor and taking advantage of the location.<\/p>\n<p>The person was then telling me how if you ever want to save money on items like those it&#8217;s usually a lot cheaper to go elsewhere to get your prescriptions such as in the grocery stores that have a pharmacy.    Just kind of feels weird to implement that kind of mindset when it comes to a scenario where you would think you can just freely follow a person&#8217;s direction as it is a health issue huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many people would honestly do price comparison shopping when it comes to purchasing simple prescribed medicine from the doctor? I think for most the natural assumption is when the doctor give you the prescription note you would then simply give it to a pharmacist and get the prescription. Today I was being told how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1310,21,3528,3529,123],"class_list":["post-3550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-mark-ups","tag-money","tag-pharmacy","tag-prescription-prices","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/924991_10264630.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-Vg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3551,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions\/3551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}