us healthcare complaining
it's really ridiculous, the way prescriptions work in the statesdoctor -> pharmacy -> pharmacist approval -> insurance approval -> filling -> then you can have your medication after paying anything insurance won't
so many steps that shouldn't be there, so inefficient
example: insurance has no real reason to even know what you're taking, it should just pay its part
and like, with escripts/echarts especially, pharmacists shouldn't have any say, it should be purely the doctor's decision (whether it's under an informed consent model is a different topic)
the more i find myself needing to engage with this system the more frustrating i'm finding it to be
all these layers and difficulties, just because everyone involved feels like they have to have some degree of control over the patient :/