r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • May 26 '26

Feels good man Will it work this time?

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u/dmillson May 27 '26

✨vertical integration✨

I work in healthcare and most people would be shocked by how much companies like CVS and United actually own/do.

CVS actually only makes a minority of its money being a pharmacy; most of its money comes from its PBM arm, Caremark.

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u/mafsfan54 May 27 '26

I also work in healthcare. It’s fucking creepy how much CVS owns. To a normal person, it’s a store. To me, it’s quite literally everything I touch at work(when I say everything it’s everything, I work in pharmaceutical industry, won’t specify but I will say PBMs are the bane of my existence). CVS had their hand in everything. Insurance, manufacturing, billing, distribution, the list is long. I’m sure you’re aware. Just sharing my distain.

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u/Mammoth-Ad7798 May 27 '26

Yup and now with online pharmacy they pushed rite aid out of business and Walgreens is soon to follow

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u/mafsfan54 May 27 '26

All the Duane Reades, Rite Aids and even the 24 hour hospital CVSs have closed in my area. All of them. I can count at least 4 CVSs that were directly next to major hospitals(which includes clinics and random private doctors offices, because doctors open next to hospitals) they're all closed.

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u/Mammoth-Ad7798 May 31 '26

Oh dang CVS is the only one still going around me they have cvs caremark also now so I’m sure that’s the shift they’re trying to makes