I’ve been supporter of repeal of prescription laws for at least a decade now. Without these laws, which benefit no one but doctors, we’d be able to buy medical drugs like metformin “over the counter” like aspirin or any other medical drug we might need. Again, freedom loving libertarians appear to have “solutions” that the mainstream political ideologies haven’t considered.
Proof of this is that because insulins are available without a prescription, the cost of my wife’s diabetes dropped from its over $2,000 a year (Medicare Part D “donut hole costs”) to $895 using Walmart Relion Novolin 70–30. We should also understand that professional organizations like the AMA exist for the economic benefit of doctors, not the welfare of the American people. We were better off before FDR in 1938 passed prescription laws at the behest of the AMA. Back then, Americans had the freedom of choice in medicine, they could rely upon their local pharmacist for advice (usually free) instead of having to rely upon doctors for everything.
