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

To: gg cox who wrote (6586)	4/2/2009 1:05:54 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Did you make an effort to read Tim's post and my post regarding the Canadian governments concern about older folks being on many medications and so offering a yearly free 30 minute consult with a pharmacist to try and sort out the muti medication pitfalls. Of course I read it. Did you make an effort to read my responses where I acknowledged that it was a good idea to use pharmacists for that purpose? I acknowledged that in each of my two posts to you. But you said, "MedsCheck is a new UNIQUE program that ALLOWS you to schedule an ANNUAL discussion with a pharmacist FOR UP TO 30 MINUTES." That wording conveys that 1) this is something that hasn't been routinely available in the past and 2) that each patient is allocated no more than 30 minutes a year. That sorry situation was what provoked my comment. No problem just reach in their pocket and pay the pharmacist his hourly rate as you would do in your country..no biggy i think pharmacists in Canada goes for between $60 and $100 per hour. You'd have to pay for that? Pharmacies here offer to work with patients on drug interactions and I doubt anyone would expect to pay them. It's just good customer service.