Have you ever walked into a pharmacy and noticed that you have to pass through isles of candy on the way to the medicine? Often, on the way back to the register, you'll pass more isles full of alcoholic beverages (depending on the state), before you face directly, as you're paying, a wall of cigarettes. The medicinal services now occupy a small corner of most chain pharmacies now.
Seems odd that a pharmacy, whose original purpose was to distribute agents of good health, is principally engaged in distributing illness. How can I trust the pharmacist who chooses to work in such a place with my health?
This, to me, feels like one of the most stark examples of how our economic system is failing to serve the public good. These sorts of counter-examples pop up anywhere that basic human needs are regulated (in any part) by monetary economies with any amount of "free market" forces allowed to play out.
Perhaps health should be managed by the people, all of us, rather than by industry.
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