Posted on 04/02/2005 7:26:51 AM PST by Sthitch
While your comment was obviously intended as an April Fool's joke, it should have been posted yesterday.
Next mail men that refuse to deliver anything in a brown wrapper. we know what is in there. and what you are using it for. How about those uppity doctors that think they can use medications for other than what they were created for.
I agree with your sentiments wholeheartedly! However, such is the reality of our system, it has been that way for years. Hospitals, for instance, all rely on medicare reimbursements to stay afloat. Hence, the federal Joint Commission on Accreditations of Healthcare Organization (JACHO) is an extremely powerful goverment agency dictating every minute details on the operation of hospitals, clinics, etc... A JACHO violation equates to a death sentence for a hospital. I don't agree with it, but unfortunately these govermental agency have become too powerful and tyrannical.
You said wal mart doesn't carry playboy therefor they don't sell it.
That's different from them selling it and the cashier refusing to sell it to you which is what is happening at the drug store. They carry BC yet a certain druggist refuses to sell it. That.s wrong.
You evidently are incapable of understanding an analogy. I'm sorry I even wasted my time posting to someone so limited.
Or collect taxes.
The druggist should look for another pharmacy that reflects his personal morals.
these are two different issues and I guess I joined them together as one.
Yeah like you can buy a beer in kansas on a sunday. oh I forgot thats against the law, you have to wait until one of the other six days of the week.
Precisely. If I worked for a clothing manufacturer and then, all of a sudden, they decided to start producing KKK garb, my morals would force me to look for employment elsewhere. If I choose to stay, then I must sell the offending garments ... or be fired ... it is not my decision to chose not to sell them, at that point, because of my belief.
I do believe, however, that the company has the right to decide to manufacture the clothing if they choose.
Your the guy who equated condoms ot hamburgers, not me? I simply presumed you knew what you were talking about (although it would be a mistake to think that way).
Look, Wal-Mart is not a licensed druggist ~ they have to hire such folks. It's really not up to Wal-Mart to decide what drugs they should sell since they have to rely on the counsel of folks licensed to do that.
health issue is a health issue. Do you want some one picking which one they want to use against you? Do you want your pharmasist doing anything but giving you what the doctor ordered.
I was wondering something similar. What, exactly, are the limits to what the governor can order by fiat? What law gives him the authority to order such a thing? Does the Illinois state constitution give him such powers?
Yes it is. Unless the gov't buys the drugs, stocks them, pays the stock labor, prices them, advertises the items and then hires the people to sell them.
It is not the choice of the druggist as to whether he sells them or not ... it's his job.
The reason is they have a history of prior robberies with pharmacists getting hurt in the process.
No one will work for them if they do handle these materials.
Seems to me both the pharmacies and the pharmacists have some professional latitude in these matters. The Governor of Illinois has no business sticking his ignorant mouth into the discussion. He's on a one way trip to hell anyway.
He's out of his water on this one.
BTW, I never said Walmart has the right to choose what drugs they sell. Does Walmart sell BC pills, I would not know this. I mentioned items such as magazines ... which would also go along with selling condoms, videos or music ... items the average corporate-buyer could decide to obtain for Walmart. you don't need a council to decide if your company should stock "Girls Gone Wild" or not.
No rights for the moral fiber of this country. The immoral is all they are concerned with.
If a cashier refuses to sell Playboy, then that is not the government violating fredom of speech. It is a cashier deciding that his or her beliefs are more important than keeping the job. The employer would be well within their rights to fire them, as they should.
If a drugstore carries birth control and a pharmacist refuses to sell it, then the pharmacy is within their rights to fire the phamracist. If a pharmacist owns his own drugstore, and refuses to sell birth control, then that is his right. Why would he even carry birth control if he felt this way? The law is really unneccessary. I don't think the government really needs to be involved here, if I didn't make that clear earlier. I do feel that people should be fairly confident that they can enter a drugstore and expect legal prescriptions to be filled. It would seem that the free market could sort this out.
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