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22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler (www.nbcnews.com)

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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

Yeap after years of getting my scripts filled at CVS or Walgreens, I recently started getting them filled at the hospital i work at. Man, having a decent pharmacist makes a huge difference. The first round of scripts I had filled one of the pharmacists called asking if I needed a specific version of any of my scripts. They ended up switching my thyroid medication that was costing me a ton every month because for some reason my doc had accidentally selected a gel coating.

If we just allowed Medicare to negotiate pricing with pharmaceutical companies like every other nation with a tax funded medical program we wouldn't have any of these problems.