Pharmacists fear Medicaid changes

Rob Hotakainen | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: August 06, 2007 06:42:52 AM

WASHINGTON — For Mark Williams, it's a simple business proposition: He can't afford to sell medicine for less than what he paid for it.

But he says that's what Washington expects him to do, come January.

"When I talk to other businesspeople and say that, they look at you cross-eyed, like, `No way,'" said Williams, the pharmacist-owner of the Medicine Shoppe in Kansas City, Kan., for the past 18 years. "But it's going to happen."