Owners of several local independent pharmacies have lukewarm reactions to the announcement, though they warn the Wal-Mart drug program is limited. Like his fellow pharmacy owners, Hefner asks consumers to be informed on the Wal-Mart drug program. Critics including the National Community Pharmacists Association, which represents non-chain pharmacies that compete with Wal-Mart, have called the discounts a publicity stunt that covers only a fraction of the 8,700 generic prescription drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Wal-Mart has made the $4 plan, which covers 30 days worth of generic drugs, a central plank of its public relations effort and says the program has cut over $610 million in health care costs since it started. In response to some comments in the article that the Wal-Mart prescription discount program is hype and offers drugs largely not used any more or not popular, that is simply not true. I saw a local business owner from Ozark in Walmart one day shopping, however he was one who was very vocal in the newspaper when Walmart was coming to Ozark and how he was afraid it would take away his hardware store customers. read more
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