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And copper tone water babies spf 50. you'll notice walmart, target, not necessarily the most expensive ones. and actually we have some examples here that i'll show you that show you these price differences. and for example, here's one kiss my face, $3.96 an ounce. $3.96 an ounce. versus this hawaiian tropic which is $1.5 an ounce. now there's nothing wrong with the kiss my face. they just said that it gives actually less protection for more money. we reached out to the kiss my face folks and they said the active ingredients in our minerals sunscreens form a physical block against the sun's bro...

With a million exclamation points. can you explain what is behind the price differences? >> a lot of it has to do with the fact like we reported in our march 4th issue, medicaid operates on the theory that nonprofit is not for profit. they fold in details like overhead whooshtion d overhead, what it costs to keep the lights on and arrive at a reasonable figure. hospitals, when they decide what to charge outside the medicare structure rely on a double secret pricing menu called the charge master, and basically the prices they charge are just whimsical which is where you get the $2,223,0222300$2...

$17. another example plavix is $180 bucks at cvs and at costc oo $1. >> we have been doing this secret shopper survey for a number of years. this was the most shocking, actually, really most surprising results we have ever seen. those price differences do reflect at least two different things. stores use their pharmacies, kind of different ways. some stores like rite-aid and cvs are meant to generate a lot of revenue and proft for the stores and that's fine. you see it reflected in high prices. stores like costco, walmart, sam's club, they try to bring in traffic in having lower prices in hope...

At cvs, lipitor $150, and at costco, $15. and then we are talking to the consumer editor, lisa gill. why the discrepancy in price? >> we have been doing the secret shopper survey for a number of years and this was the most -- really the most surprising results we have ever seen. those price differences talk about two different things. stores use their pharmacies in different ways. stores like cvs, they are meant to generate a lot of revenue and profit for the stores and that's fine. you see it reflect in high prices. stores like costco, walmart, sam's club, they try to bring in

And singulair. another example, cvs is $180, at costco, $15. i asked lisa gill about the huge difference between the drug prices. >> i have to say, we've been doing this secret shopper survey a number of years and this was the most shocking -- actually, really most surprising results we've ever seen. those price differences do reflect at least two different things. stores use their pharmacies kind of different ways. some stores like rite aid, cvs, they're meant to generate a lot of revenue, a lot of profit for the stores. and that's fine. you kind of see it reflected in high prices. stores lik...