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Meanwhile in Australia, we’re stuck in the Stone Age because of an incredibly corrupt and influential pharmacy lobby.

zmmmmm 3y ago
Wouldn't grate so much if i didn't get such incredibly poor service every time I go in there. The few times I've actually dared to ask them for information about what they just dispensed me they looked at me like I'm an alien and fobbed me off with completely generic advice I could have read from the packaging.
- bbbrerfi88 3y ago
  Service is generally terrible in Australia. Pharmacies are particularly horrible.
dann0 3y ago
PBS covered medications are extremely cheap compared to other countries. I had to stay longer in the US than planned a few years ago, and just about needed a second mortgage to get my fairly standard meds. Unaffordable without insurance. If you don’t like your pharmacist, shop elsewhere. There are plenty of excellent ones with a strong desire to help. They probably don’t work at Chemist Warehouse though.
- bbbrerfi88 3y ago
  The Pharmacy Guild does its best to suppress competition. Regarding the PBS, the government tried to make it easier/cheaper to get repeat prescriptions and they lobbied hard against it, turning pharmacies into party-political platforms, so the chronically sick and elderly would be forced to go in every month instead of every two months in the hope that they’d buy their retail products. They lobby aggressively. To get a prescription delivered home in Australia, you need to physically post the original prescription. Total regulatory capture.
sacnoradhq 3y ago
America enters the chat. Have you seen our retail pharmacy prices? ( https://www.goodrx.com https://www.goodrx.com ) 2/3 of COTUS is on the take for big Rx. It takes taking fucking gold bars for helping a foreign adversary as an "alleged" treasonous traitor to not get kicked out of office but just lose some subcommittee assignments. You can lie about your education, profess belief in whacky conspiracy theories, and not even understand how government works and still remain a representative. Oh, and a few of the latter wingnuts are precipitating an imminent government shutdown because there is zero accountability for behavior. And you can repeat Whitewater in Texas and get away with it. https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/federal-full-data-set/ https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/feder...

Wouldn't grate so much if i didn't get such incredibly poor service every time I go in there. The few times I've actually dared to ask them for information about what they just dispensed me they looked at me like I'm an alien and fobbed me off with completely generic advice I could have read from the packaging.

bbbrerfi88 3y ago
Service is generally terrible in Australia. Pharmacies are particularly horrible.

dann0 3y ago

PBS covered medications are extremely cheap compared to other countries. I had to stay longer in the US than planned a few years ago, and just about needed a second mortgage to get my fairly standard meds. Unaffordable without insurance. If you don’t like your pharmacist, shop elsewhere. There are plenty of excellent ones with a strong desire to help. They probably don’t work at Chemist Warehouse though.

bbbrerfi88 3y ago
The Pharmacy Guild does its best to suppress competition. Regarding the PBS, the government tried to make it easier/cheaper to get repeat prescriptions and they lobbied hard against it, turning pharmacies into party-political platforms, so the chronically sick and elderly would be forced to go in every month instead of every two months in the hope that they’d buy their retail products. They lobby aggressively. To get a prescription delivered home in Australia, you need to physically post the original prescription. Total regulatory capture.

sacnoradhq 3y ago

America enters the chat. Have you seen our retail pharmacy prices? ( https://www.goodrx.com https://www.goodrx.com ) 2/3 of COTUS is on the take for big Rx. It takes taking fucking gold bars for helping a foreign adversary as an "alleged" treasonous traitor to not get kicked out of office but just lose some subcommittee assignments. You can lie about your education, profess belief in whacky conspiracy theories, and not even understand how government works and still remain a representative. Oh, and a few of the latter wingnuts are precipitating an imminent government shutdown because there is zero accountability for behavior. And you can repeat Whitewater in Texas and get away with it. https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/federal-full-data-set/ https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/feder...