A recent Bleader post expressed my puzzlement, suspiciousness, and anger at the prices I confronted the other day when I stopped at the local CVS to pick up a refill of a drug I need—mephyton, aka vitamin K. It's expensive and Medicare doesn't cover it, so I'd brought along coupons that I believed would drop the cost to about $340 for a bottle of 30 tablets. Instead, CVS quoted me a price that was over $500.…
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