Cheap Drugs

Wal-mart has done it again, this time offering 4$ prescription drugs to customers. Although these cheap generic drugs seem to be great, some say that the facts are the people who have any sort of health insurance will not buy them. With there co-pay being 5$ and some change it is unlikely that they will go to Wal-Mart to purchase generic medicines but rather stick to local drug stores. Many people though for example, anyone who does not have health insurance, will benefit greatly from costly drugs that they need and can now buy for 4$. But, what happened with the extra money that they save on prescriptions , more say they will probably spend it somewhere else in Wal-Mart. This is why Wal-Mart is continues to be such a superstore as they like to call it. One may wonder who can compete with these prices , well Target one of Wal-Mart's biggest competitors has already matched this price in 47 states. But, what does all of this mean, are these cheaper drugs ultimately helping or hurting society? Or maybe that is not the issue, maybe this is just one more way for Wal-Mart to gain control of yet one more part of business. What do you think?