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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gg cox who wrote (6578)	4/1/2009 7:44:15 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Who better to look to, for solutions, than a 30 minute consul with a trained professional pharmacist that has put in years studying drugs and their side effects and spends countless hours staying current. Sure, but that's not the point. The point is ONLY getting 30 minutes a year. When you're used to pharmacists being available as often and as long as you want, that looks like stingy rationing. "MedsCheck is a new UNIQUE program that ALLOWS you to schedule an ANNUAL discussion with a pharmacist FOR UP TO 30 MINUTES." If the system allowed you to eat one meal a day, you wouldn't brag about it.

To: gg cox who wrote (6578)	4/2/2009 3:48:03 PM
From: Peter Dierks	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

As i said, the program is a partial solution to older folks taking many medications, with possibly, many adverse consequences . Who better to look to, for solutions, than a 30 minute consul with a trained professional pharmacist that has put in years studying drugs and their side effects and spends countless hours staying current. The Docs are extremely busy ..and probably safe to say, not as up to date as pharmacists, regarding drugs and their interactions with other drugs. I'll leave it up to you to suggest a better solution. Under current US law (unless it too was slipped in under Porkulus) people are entitled and permitted to consult with pharmacists as well as doctors on drug interactions. It is typically handled by both ones primary care physician and pharmacist. Having two people studying a subject sometimes results in more problems being caught. Additionally, it is a point of differentiation that is used in advertisements to position some pharmacy stores and or chains. On top of that software developed in the US run by some chains already spots some of the most common interaction problems. As I wrote earlier, taking things from people is only effective when you have a group such as liberals who wish to use it to advance their own causes and punish those with whom they disagree.