It is a banner day for socialism in Delaware.
(If you are keeping score at home please note: Anything that benefits large corporations is inherently good and just. Anything that benefits people (especially poor people) is teh bad socialism.)
“The Markell administration should look into the possibility of ending the state’s contractual agreement with Walgreens in the state group health program,” Rep. Barbieri said. “Between state employees and Medicaid recipients, we send more than $60 million in business their way each year for prescriptions while they posted $2.2 billion in net income last year. And yet, Walgreens is entering a practice of only targeting those who would get them the greatest profit. It seems that when some corporations are so far removed from the state, they lose sight of the state’s needs.
“If that’s how Walgreens is going to do business in Delaware, then perhaps we as a state should not do business with them.”
Sen. Bethany Hall-Long, a member of the Senate’s Health and Social Services Committee and one of the General Assembly’s two health care professionals, agreed, noting that Walgreens was not singled out by the state.
“It’s unfortunate that a company is turning its back on our neediest citizens at a time when everyone in the state is feeling some kind of pain because of the recession,” said Sen. Hall-Long. “Walgreens wasn’t a special case. We asked them to make the same sacrifice being asked of our other pharmaceutical providers – no more, no less – and this was their response.”