Not just the US. New Zealand has free health care, but there are a variety of drugs you can’t get prescribed easily (often because the system is trying to prev

Not just the US. New Zealand has free health care, but there are a variety of drugs you can’t get prescribed easily (often because the system is trying to prevent drug-seeking). However it regularly ends up that necessary medicines are legally unobtainable (two situations recently in my own family). I have seen friends turn to illegal sources, or seek substitutes (especially “alternative” medicines and/or internet bullshit).