The Pharmacy Is Closed

di William Liu (Autore)

William Liu, 2026

Ramona Stone is 81, has no car, and walks fifteen minutes every day to the corner drugstore. Then the closing notice goes up. On paper, almost nothing changes: the chain stays in town and her prescription file moves to a sister store. From the sidewalk outside her building, everything changes. The Pharmacy Is Closed is a clear-eyed look at why America's drugstores are vanishing from the places that depend on them most. Follow the bankruptcies of Rite Aid and the retrenchment of the big chains, the pharmacy benefit managers that decide what a counter is paid, and the federal rules that quietly move money around. Each decision makes sense on a spreadsheet. Nobody is responsible for the sum. Chapter by chapter, the book maps the pharmacy deserts forming across rural towns, Black and Latino neighborhoods, and the lives of older adults and people without cars, and asks what it takes to keep a prescription within reach. If you want to understand why your local pharmacy closed, who gets left behind when it does, and what can be done about it, start here.

• Autore: William Liu
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: William Liu
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237601084