It's not just Medicare, the whole system is confusing, frustrating, and flat-out broken for anybody who relies on prescription drugs to stay alive. We have sev

It's not just Medicare, the whole system is confusing, frustrating, and flat-out broken for anybody who relies on prescription drugs to stay alive. We have several prescriptions in the family that our insurance won't allow to be filled locally, instead passing to some sort of bulk mail pharmacy. Which would be fine, except you don't know which drugs those are until you take the presciption to the local pharmacy only to have them tell you they can't fill it under our plan. But, by that time, they've got the prescription in their system, so now we need to call the doctor and have them figure out which specialist pharmacy to use (for which the doctor charges us an extra fee), creating more overhead, more cost, more annoyance.