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Comment: In Canada, there are other problems related to pricing of prescription medication that need to be investigated and solved. For example, the pharmacy is allowed to give you up to 100 pills of a prescription drug but often will give you 80 or less. Why? Because they get to charge you the dispensing fee more often.
I asked what does the dispensing fee cover. When I buy a beer at our local LCBO store, they just bring me a box of eight, I pay for it, and I take it home without having to pay a separate dispensing fee. I was told that the owners of pharmacies have to pay their employees and this is why they charge us the dispensing fee. I argued that I am not the “owner” and I don’t participate in the profits of the pharmacy, therefore the owners, and not I, should pay their employees.
Or, they tell you that they have to complete documentation for the government or other agencies (which they do). When you tell them that you don’t need that documentation, if the government needs it, the government should pay for it, not you, they ignore it and look at you as if you’ve just fallen from the roof on your head.
A few years ago, I read that a dispensing fee is charged for a prescription, not separately for each drug listed on it, but this was then and it has changed.
Or, they tell you that for a certain drug you have to pay 100% price because your insurance or the government don’t cover it, but when you call your insurance and ask them about it, they say that they cover it fully. This happened to me with a drug called Onglyza that used to be fully covered and now is not.
When the pandemic began, some pharmacies were selling boxes of 50 made in China KN95 masks for $200 but these masks were not on display, you had to buy them under the table and pay cash. The list of “why” questions goes on… I remember when food and meds were exempt from sales tax. But then greed and corruption took over and today nobody is controlling or regulating these practices. It seems…
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