Prescription without visiting doctor, how?

[jaminhealth]

Originally Posted by k374

I asked the doc and he wrote me a prescription without charging me. However I paid through the friggin nose for the drugs at CVS. Why are medications so expensive here in the US? The anti malaria drug is called Mefloquine and CVS charged me $9 per tablet, insanity. It should be more like 25 cents, it's a generic not even branded. WTF is wrong with health care in this country? This is not a drug to cure cancer, it's a generic run of the mill patent expired drug being peddled for 10,000% profit.

Capitalism...Profits are bottom line. They don't care about our health...take that to the bank.

[old fed]

Originally Posted by jaminhealth

Capitalism...Profits are bottom line. They don't care about our health...take that to the bank.

thank god acupuncturists, prolotherapists, supplement merchants, etc. aren't worried about profit or capitalism.

[jaminhealth]

Originally Posted by old fed

thank god acupuncturists, prolotherapists, supplement merchants, etc. aren't worried about profit or capitalism.

Oh they are BUT not like you know who. Never say a tv ad for prolo workers, or acupuncturist and hardly any ads for supps. Those ads are a HUGE part of pharma advtg.

It's astounding that SO MANY here don't think alternative workers should make a living, pay their overhead, their help. Some alternative workers are a one man office and do everything themselves so they don't have huge outlays of $$$. I've seen this with a rheumy I went to for 2 yrs who did all the above, and she did it all in her one woman office. She would see one patient and each patient got 45-60 min with her. What I hear from so many here, they are lucky if they get 15 min with their MD's, who have an office full of help.