{"id":2490,"date":"2007-08-07T11:26:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T16:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/07\/publix-supermarket-offering-free-prescriptions\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T23:59:11","slug":"publix-supermarket-offering-free-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/publix-supermarket-offering-free-prescriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Publix Supermarkets Offering Free Prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Capitalism and competition are helping reduce medical costs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/sfl-0806publix,0,1726442.story\">South Florida Sun-Sentinel<\/a> | Jacob Langston | Aug. 6, 2007<\/p>\n<p>CAPE CORAL &#8211; Publix supermarket chain said today it will make seven common prescription antibiotics available for free, joining other major retailers in trying to lure customers to their stores with cheap medications.<\/p>\n<p>The oral antibiotics, representing the most commonly filled at the chain&#8217;s pharmacies, will be available at no cost to anyone with a prescription as often as they need them, Publix CEO Charlie Jenkins Jr. said. Fourteen-day supplies of the seven drugs will be available at all 684 of the chain&#8217;s pharmacies in five Southern states.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The prescription antibiotics available under the program are amoxicillin, cephalexin, penicillin VK, erythromycin, ampicillin, sulfamethoxazole\/trimethoprim, and ciprofoxacin.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Charlie Crist went to a suburban Fort Myers store to help the company make the announcement and to praise the Lakeland-based employee-owned company, one of the dominant retailers in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can&#8217;t be any more affordable than free,&#8221; Crist said.<\/p>\n<p>Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Kmart and other retailers already offer discounted drug programs. But Publix Super Markets Inc. officials say the company is the first large regional chain to offer certain drugs at no cost. In addition to Florida, the company operates stores in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>With health care costs one of the biggest challenges facing many Americans, Crist said that the private sector&#8217;s involvement in the solution was &#8220;a great trend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/sfl-0806publix,0,1726442.story\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitalism and competition are helping reduce medical costs. South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Jacob Langston | Aug. 6, 2007 CAPE CORAL &#8211; Publix supermarket chain said today it will make seven common prescription antibiotics available for free, joining other major retailers in trying to lure customers to their stores with cheap medications. The oral antibiotics, representing &#8230; <a title=\"Publix Supermarkets Offering Free Prescriptions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/publix-supermarket-offering-free-prescriptions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Publix Supermarkets Offering Free Prescriptions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}