Jenkins acknowledged that increasing pharmacy sales was a part of the company's motivation, but said the company also wanted to contribute to making health care more affordable. Barbara Lemay, who was shopping in the Publix where Crist and the company made the announcement, said it would be a good start for her. You have no insurance, you're looking at hundreds of dollars a month.
Lemay, who gets Social Security benefits, said if she is prescribed one of the antibiotics she definitely would go to Publix to get it, and said it could save her "thousands of dollars. Andrew Agwunobi, secretary of Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration and a pediatrician, said many of the antibiotics are prescribed for children, and he noted that Florida has 3. It hopes it can draw more shoppers into its stores who may come for prescriptions and then stay to buy in other departments.
Before you buy medications, see if you can get them for free. Comments Vic Ros May 3, at pm. Melina May 3, at pm. Quick Links Thing to Do. Food and Drink. Business Directory. Restaurant Directory. Events Calendar. Orlando on the Cheap Find discount tickets to theme parks, things to do with kids and hidden gems in and around Orlando. But there is still widespread inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics by physicians and nurse practitioners , often prodded by patient demands.
Another factor contributing to antibiotic resistance is patients not finishing the antibiotics they've been prescribed. It is still all too common for patients to stop taking their antibiotics when they begin to feel better. This allows bacteria to develop resistance to that particular antibiotic.
It is a well-established principle of both economics and psychology that people's perception of the value of a good relates to how much they paid for it -- Thus, a patient who had to pay for their antibiotics is perhaps more likely to actually finish taking them, on the notion that "I paid for these pills, I don't want to have wasted that money.
The antibiotics being offered for free by Publix are all generics, and are not expensive compared to other prescription drugs. On drugstore. Since antibiotics are typically taken for a short period, this amounts to a very modest one-time savings.
This underscores that this is mainly a marketing move, something which Publix more or less admitted in the Palm Beach Post story:. We have never been about that. We are always looking for ways to differentiate ourselves from the competition. The Lakeland-based company has stores. With health care costs one of the biggest challenges facing many Americans, Crist said that the private sector's involvement in the solution was "a great trend.
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