CVS changes name, stops tobacco sales early

[yallerdawg]

34. I celebrate the Affordable Care Act!

It's a good first step.

Optimal is non-profit federally-funded Medicare for all, universal coverage birth to earth (but where's the profit in that, the opponents say?).

You keep suggesting I am a right-winger. Far from it. I am pointing out how we are already being required to pay for our self-indulgent behaviors, for being human as you call it.

I don't equate smoking with unemployment and domestic abuse. You do.

So when we pay for health insurance on the exchanges, smokers pay more. Why would we not expect other medically identified behaviors should not be under same conditions of coverage? Now you protest and call it fascism, the heavy hand of the state?

As in all things, be careful what you ask for or you just may get it. We all need to make concessions in order for this to work, I accept this. I understand the way the system is now, it is unsustainable if we continue to indulge ourselves in self-destructive behaviors. Not just healthcare, but so many other facets of life.

A corporation like CVS voluntarily discontinues an addictive profitable item for the greater good?

I applaud CVS. Just note sign of things to come.