Are you saying we already have a law covering this and therefore don't need a special case? That instead of this new law, Washington state should enforce the law it already has? (Sounds like the FDA needs some backbone.)
Btw: I have no idea the name of my sisters medicine just that is quite expensive. She did have to change pharmacies though. The old pharmacy never seem to get it in like they said.
If you stop shopping there and I stop shopping there and all of the people who agree with us stop shopping there, they'll either go out of business or start selling what the public wants.
Government mandate of 'required' items is trouble, plain and simple. Just like so many other well-intentioned government interventions ... it will just grow and grow and get twisted over time. In the long run, the only winners with this law will be the pharmaceutical companies.
BTW: There is A LOT of medication that pharmacies don't / can't have in stock. My sister has to call and pre-order her arthritis medication.
We agree, let's leave religion and morals out of it. I'm saying that the government should not mandate what is sold and what is not. What a particular store decides to sell should be left up to the stores and it's customers. Whether it be Plan B, Vicodin, beer, condoms, or ice-cream. A store has the right to determine what they sell for whatever reason. I don't care about their reason. I support their right to run their own place of business the way they see fit. I also support the right to boycott those business's I don't agree with.
Nor should the government dispense morality. But this isn't about morality. Take the focus away from religion and look where we could end up. We could have a government mandated 'required' list of items, drugs, food, whatever, that stores are required to sell. This list would be made by politicians and lobbyists. Plan B is simply the first item on the list. Do we really want to give pharmaceutical companies more power so that stores stores are *required* to stock their merchandise. They would LOVE it.
Capitalism works. If stores refuse to stock certain items, the customers will vote with their feet. Since most people in the U.S. want Plan B to be available, those stores that don't carry it will feel economic pressure to do so. I know that if I found that my pharmacy refused to carry it, I'd would take all my business elsewhere and tell them why. It worked for condoms. It worked for birth control. It will work for Plan B.
Exactly. Where does it end? The government determines whats 'required' to be carried by individual stores. Stores would have to sell whatever is on the governments 'required' list that's put together by politicians and lobbyists. Doesn't matter what they feel is best for them or their clientele. Whenever the government gets a little power - they take a lot of power.
If a store refuses to sell Plan B - I don't shop there. If they refuse to sell aids drugs - I don't shop there. The vast majority of pharmacies will sell what they need to sell to make a profit. They don't want to lose customers or get bad publicity. It's always been like that. Look back when condoms and birth control first came out. Same thing. Capitalism is very adaptive.
The government stepping in does nothing but build resentment and infringe on the rights of individual store owners. . Now if a drug store is selling Plan B and the pharmacist refuses to fill the prescription for whatever reason - the store has the right to fire them on the spot. Again, it's the stores right not the governments.
It's not about medication or about religion. Its about the rights of store owners to decide what they choose to sell. Vote with your feet - not with your mouth! The government has no right to determine what merchandise a store carries. Period.
A Christian Scientist owns and operates the store. He/She can sell whatever they please. A store should be able to stock and sell merchandise based on their religion, clientele, or location or simply their mood. Its THEIR STORE!!! The government has not right to require stores to sell anything. I simply would not shop at a store that refuses to sell Plan B. That is capitalism at work.
The point is that the store has the right to decide what it sells and what it doesn't sell. Period. The government has no right to require stores sell particular merchandise. Are pharmacies required to carry ALL medication ALL the time. Of course not. A store will stock merchandise based on what they can and what they want to sell. Now if a store does offer certain merchandise, the store has a right to require it's employes to sell it.
YES! Finally someone I agree with. The gov't can't legislate what a store sells. That's ludicrous. What's next - every store must sell chocolate chip ice-cream? Are we going to force Muslim owned stores to sell beer?
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