Wal-Mart speeds low-cost drug plan - The Boston Globe

Wal-Mart speeds low-cost drug plan - The Boston Globe: "Wal-Mart Stores Inc. expects to offer $4 prescriptions for some generic drugs in most states this year after expanding the program from a test market to all of Florida ahead of schedule, the world's largest retailer said yesterday.Wal-Mart also raised the number of generic prescription drugs offered under the $4-for-a-month's-supply plan to 314 from 291. The new number comprises 143 drugs in a variety of dosages and solid or liquid forms that together make up the total, up from about 125 drugs when the program started, Wal-Mart said."
This is going to set the cat amongst the pigeons as consumers are going to start demanding more reasonable costs for the drugs they take !