Small Pharmacies

Alan summons small pharmacies as battle-tested alibi in the Roosevelt Room showdown, carving them as independent outlets enforcing tiered pricing—Norway's demand steeper hikes than home-market pours—mediating pharma flows to patients. They pierce the impasse over AIDS drugs' $150/week toll against Kenyan cops' $43/month wages, framing corporate markups as market dictate rather than moral failing. Loosely federated retail nodes, they absorb differentials, fueling debates on access as Toby's outrage boils over.