Has anyone ever had to battle a pharmacy for their prescribed meds?

@SW-User thanks for that.🙂

@SW-User my pleasure!👍️🤗

@Mondayschild What kind of drugs require that........ addictive pain killers?

@DallasCowboysFan yes and some controlled anxiety meds

@Mondayschild I was not aware of that. I have only taken 'light' stuff like tetracycline etc..

I was prescribed Percocet once but never took them......

I am thinking about switching pharmacies to see if that helps @Indy74

@BrattyMel I'm thinking about it, but, I'm on so many meds it would screw things up even more. 🙄

Ugh yeah, that wouldn’t be very helpful! @Indy74

@DallasCowboysFan day before is the law for controlled substance in most states

@Nimbus I may try that. We will see.🙂

@Indy74 I mean why is it not an easy smooth process?

@SW-User my doctor puts long instructions on the script he sends in. The pharmacy always misreads it and bam here we go.

@Indy74 Can you explain the situation to the DR and have him shorten the explanation or make it clearer to the pharmacist?

@DallasCowboysFan They charge more because the political fix is in due to their heavy contributions to campaigns and lobbying. Drug companies can't get away with what they do here in other companies. Politicians are bought and on big pharma's side.

Medicare insures more than 60 million beneficiaries, they are one of the biggest buyers of pharmaceuticals on the planet so you would think they could bargain for the best prices. ate the best prices. But not so.

Congress, our politicians, stopped it from getting the best drug prices years ago. In the law ironically called the Medicare Modernization Act. Among other things it did, it set up corporate Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) in charge of acquiring drugs through Medicare's "Part D" plan. On paper these middlemen to do the job of the government of getting good prices through the free market, seemed like a good idea, but it didn't work, the only thing it guaranteed was that it made profit for the corporations running the pharmacy benefit managers.

We need to put Medicare directly in charge of demanding the lowest drug prices, the corporations owning the PBM's are not going to like that and will fight any change, your politicians will vote for maintaining the status quo unless you throw the bums out or light a fire under their ass.

Countries with national or single-payer healthcare, it should be noted, offer drugs to citizens at a fraction of what U.S. healthcare patients pay.

@Subsumedpat I agree with everything you said. The pharma industry charges as much as it does because the govt and other insurers are willing to pay for it.

A few years ago I needed cataract surgery. I had to get 3 bottles of steroidal eye drops. Each bottle was less than an ounce. If I recall correctly, they were 60,150 and 400 dollars. If.....I paid cash. Insurance was about half the price and with my copay I probably paid $50 total. I don't understand why there are multiple prices for the same product. You don't pay 2,3,4 prices for a Big Mac at McD. And why is the cash price so much more? You would think it would be cheapest, because they get their money immediately and not a month later.

The medical industry is a crime syndicate. I don't know if it is the doctors or the insurance companies or the need to charge so much because of the lawyers that always want to sue them.

But something needs to change. I hope Trump can make something happen. At least the is trying.

@DallasCowboysFan Trump can't meaningful change it and does not seem interested in healthcare reform past campaign slogans. It will take congressional action and a willingness to completely overturn the system an and rewrite all the rules.

@LyricalOne it's freaking walmart , so go figure.

@Stereoguy the same thing happens to me. They are so slow or they are just playing around.😳