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I wonder if it’s the beginnings of rationing.

The point of my post number 10 (above) was that the blame was being focused on the Pharmaceutical companies. It think that it is something else. I think it was Thomas Sowell who said that there is no such thing as a shortage. There is only a shortage for given product at a given price. When the free market operates, there are no shortages. Cancer drugs are a dicey example, because of the life and death implications, but the laws of economics apply nevertheless. If the government is going to dictate how much it will pay for a certain drug, for example, it should come as no surprise that there will be a shortage at that price.

There are medications that doctors only prescribe on four-week or thirty-day cycles. You cannot go to the pharmacy to get a renewal until the date of the refill arrives, which both the pharmacy and the doctor have on file. The pharmacy will not allow the patient to have the medication, even a day early.

In case of an emergency, like a hurricane or some other life-altering event, this can make it very difficult to get medications prescribed.

It is not unusual for the pharmacy to need to contact my doctor when filling my prescriptions. If I were to run out of my medications and communications were in such disarray that the pharmacy could not get authorization from my doctor, I could very well find myself in a potentially hazardous position.

Throw prescription shortages into the mix, and this has the makings of a nightmare for someone like me.

Rationing is something that keeps me up at night. How would I access my medications? I wouldn't be able to.

I believe that is according to plan. Socialism never protects those that they think are weak. That's been the sinister truth behind Obamacare, all along. It's never been about health care. It's only about controlling the population.