Meanwhile in Australia, we’re stuck in the Stone Age because of an incredibly corrupt and influential pharmacy lobby.
Have you seen our retail pharmacy prices? ( https://www.goodrx.com )
2/3 of COTUS is on the take for big Rx. It takes taking fucking gold bars for helping a foreign adversary as an "alleged" treasonous traitor to not get kicked out of office but just lose some subcommittee assignments. You can lie about your education, profess belief in whacky conspiracy theories, and not even understand how government works and still remain a representative. Oh, and a few of the latter wingnuts are precipitating an imminent government shutdown because there is zero accountability for behavior. And you can repeat Whitewater in Texas and get away with it.
https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/feder...
If you don’t like your pharmacist, shop elsewhere. There are plenty of excellent ones with a strong desire to help. They probably don’t work at Chemist Warehouse though.
They lobby aggressively.
To get a prescription delivered home in Australia, you need to physically post the original prescription.
Total regulatory capture.