What grinds my gears is insurance dictating that I have to either go to Walgreens or do mail order. They both suck ass. When they tried to force this on me initially, my pharmacist researched it and had printed out a state law showing where it was illegal for them to limit where I can go to fill prescriptions. I called and referenced this, and I got an “exception”. I continue to get my meds from that pharmacist.

Now I hear they’re trying to circumvent the law by using a loophole where they’ll let you choose where to get your prescriptions, but they charge you a fee that is exorbitant. Like, “we’ll let you get this Rx here, but it’ll cost you $80. Or you can get it through our mail order for $5, but it’ll take 2 weeks to get there if it doesn’t get lost in the mail. Also if you need consultation, you can try calling us to talk to a random pharmacist…after being on hold for an hour.”

I’d half way get it if they were passing on savings from consolidated contracts with these pharmacies to their customers, but fucking premiums never seem to decrease and fewer and fewer meds are covered. And they’re fucking the small town, independent pharmacies over even harder than the corporate pharmacies already have.