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   feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 06:54:29 JST feld
   America: let's start fixing the healthcare problem incrementally instead of expecting a magical overhaul that will never happen.
   
   Like here's an easy one: doctors and clinics should have medication to dispense. It should not be legal to give you a prescription and you have to go somewhere else to fill it. Minimum 48 hours of medication should be dispensed on the spot unless it's a speciality medication or there's simply a lack of inventory that day.
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     braincake@noagendasocial.com's status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 07:17:59 JST braincake

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     @feld Yer local docs and clinics are not gonna have the capital to store drugs on hand. Nor the people to handle the security and compliance nightmares. The (rapidly consolidating) health care "chains" sure. That seems reasonable.

     I'd settle for outright banning drug advertising being a decent start.

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 07:19:51 JST feld

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     • braincake
     Aspirins, antibiotics, all the basic shit is not expensive and doesn't require a lot of capital. Just look at how cheap the vet versions of the same thing are.
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 05:52:59 JST feld

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     • Salastil
     Actually I'm calling bullshit on the excuse that theft is a root cause for this change. The veterinarians would be suffering the same problem and they're not. They also operate on a much smaller amount of free capital than doctors and have no issue keeping inventory of everything. Nobody is stealing their opiates.
     
     There's something else going on that caused this change and I have no reason to doubt it was the insurance companies.
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     Salastil (salastil@pleroma.salastil.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 05:53:00 JST Salastil

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     This used to be a thing back in the day, also doctors used to do home visits back up to the 50s-70s and carried basic drugs on them as well. One of the old timers in my town used to be a doctor that did home visits in Philly during this time frame and stopped doing it because he got beaten badly and robbed by a bunch of black people in who wanted his basic drugs. The same was true for what you’re talking about with locally stored drugs at the doctors office. They kept dealing with break-ins so it shifted to a “secure” location such as the pharmacies we have today.

     In the most recent wave of looting here in Philly last month the first thing they went for was the pharmacies so they could sell the Percocets, Promethazine and other crap on the corners. The system you want only works in a high-trust society, everything in America has to be asshole-proofed now and its really irritating for honest people.