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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All
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To: twmoore who wrote (3784)3/29/2004 10:10:02 AM
From: Bicycle  Read Replies (1) of 37785
 
Where I live, the pharmacy charges a dispensing fee of between $5 and $10 for filling a script. Scripts for 90 days cost between $20 and $40 for a year's supply. Limiting scripts to a two week supply would bring the filling fees to between $125 and $250 for the year.

For those who are required to take medication continuously for life, and also unlucky enough to be paying for their medicine out of their own pockets, the twenty-five fold increase in dispensing fees that would follow if your suggestion were implemented would make it very unpopular.

Perhaps a better idea would be to eliminate the dispensing fees altogether. Then the pharmacists would have some motivation for reducing the number of scripts they fill, instead of the current system where the incentive encourages them to sell ever increasing quantities.

However, in your post you suggest a $1 fee for every script. I assume you mean the patient must pay $1 for scripts that are covered by some insurance or program. Currently, many plans require a $1 or $2 co-payment, but several pharmacies waive this. Are you suggesting that they be forced to collect it?

Perhaps I misunderstood you and that you mean that the dispensing fee should be $1 instead of the current $5 to $10.

Just my thoughts.

Bye4Now, FD.
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