{"id":6015,"date":"2012-07-19T12:17:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T19:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2012-07-20T06:41:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:41:14","slug":"cvs-vs-walgreens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6015","title":{"rendered":"CVS vs. Walgreens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5023\" title=\"userpic=progenitorivox\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicprogenitorivox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"93\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>Since the beginning of the year, we&#8217;ve been forced to use CVS as our preferred drug store, Walgreens, was in a spat with ExpressScripts. CVS never had prescriptions ready on time, and their communication mechanisms were slow and painful. I just saw some great news. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/money\/la-fi-mo-walgreen-express-20120719,0,5385573.story\">Walgreens and ExpressScripts have finally settled their spat<\/a>, and ExpressScripts prescriptions can be refilled starting 9\/15. I will be very glad to transfer back to Walgreens.<\/p>\n<p>Next up: Can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/envelope\/cotown\/la-et-epix-tale-20120718,0,3385003.story\">Viacom and DirecTV settle<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>ETA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-directv-viacom-resolve-fee-dispute-20120720,0,7081474.story\" target=\"_blank\">And the answer is yes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of the year, we&#8217;ve been forced to use CVS as our preferred drug store, Walgreens, was in a spat with ExpressScripts. CVS never had prescriptions ready on time, and their communication mechanisms were slow and painful. I just saw some great news. Walgreens and ExpressScripts have finally settled their spat, and ExpressScripts <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6015\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6017,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions\/6017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}