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Putting pharmacies in all those places when door to door delivery exists would be insanely wasteful. Just make it easier for pharmacists to mail you your medici
by rayiner 2y ago
Putting pharmacies in all those places when door to door delivery exists would be insanely wasteful. Just make it easier for pharmacists to mail you your medicines.
- notyourwork 2y agoLet’s see how that works out with privatized USPS. Last mile isn’t free.
- rayiner 2y agoYou know what really isn’t free—putting highly educated, well-paid medical professionals in a building serving an extremely low density area.
- selimthegrim 2y agoThose might be the only educated people for people to talk to in that entire extremely low density area
- s1artibartfast 2y agoOr relax the requirements so you don't need a 6-8 years of postsecondary education and a 250k degree to be a glorified cashier. And that is before even getting into the consolidation of the pharmacy/PBM industry. I've spent a lot of time in tiny poor Mexican towns that manage to have a pharmacy, sometimes several. Not only that, but you can get hundreds of prescriptions over the counter that would cost thousand dollar doctors visits in the US. I can only imagine every small town in the US would also have an economically viable pharmacy if the regulatory environment here was the same.
- sieabahlpark 2y ago[dead]
- hollerith 2y agoI heard that the drugs for sale in Mexican pharmacies are often counterfeit or defective in other ways, so I'm not sure how relevant that example is.
- RGamma 2y ago'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.
- fzeroracer 2y agoAnd who is going to pay for or subsidize the delivery costs? Especially when the government is talking about axing USPS?
- rayiner 2y agoWho was going to pay to build those pharmacies in the middle of nowhere?