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AMY GOODMAN: Well, tell us some of their stories. You talk about escaping the corporate tentacles.


JIM HIGHTOWER:

We write about a fellow, Chris Johnson, who’s a pharmacist making $100,000 a year with a chain drugstore down in Texas, and he said, “It just made me sick to my stomach.” And what made him sick was, people would come up with their prescriptions, he would fill them, present them to them and present the bill, and they would back away and walk out without their money—without their prescription. They couldn’t afford them.

And so, he spun off and created MedSavers, a little company that is a single pharmacy

serving people who have no insurance

And he’s able to provide medicine—for example, a pill that sells for $59 for ninety capsules, he can sell for $16.

He feels better about himself. He’s got his hours set now, so he can be at home with his children in the morning for breakfast

people are doing that all across the country

in business, in politics