Obamcare: A lot of people are going to die.
Just asking: why would you be trying to get an antibiotic to use against colds/flu, which are viral?
Um, Z-Packs are an antibiotic which are wholly ineffective against viruses.
While this experince does not bode well for things to come, why is he getting an antibiotic for the flu?
“The market has failed”
The government manipulated and over-regulated market has failed.
Is there some issue preventing you from driving to the pharmacy, pulling out your checkbook, and paying retail for this medication and dealing with the reimbursement issue on the back end?
Shocking concept, actually paying for a product I know, but it is an option.
The Pharmacys also have to try to navigate the Obamacare system to determine in real time if you have coverage and where you are on your deductible at that very moment.
It's called Mexico. A place that is properly in every other respect a 3rd-world country.
Markets don't fail. What you're describing is not a market.
I also see an ENT and there are 7 doctors in that clinic and I could probably see one of them on short notice but they too would not give out a prescription unless it was a refill, if they had not seen me.
As others have told you, influenza is viral and antibiotics will not help it. What they will do is cure the bacterial infections that come along with and after the virus has made you very very sick. I hope he is able to get antibiotics in time to ward off the bacterial infection.
Well, strangely enough, Zithro won’t help your son fight off a flu VIRUS. Now if he has a bacterial pneumonia Zithro may work but I suggest levofloxacin.
They have single handedly destroyed the economy, the financial system, the healthsystem, the energy system the judicial system, foreign policy and the leadership of the free world. It is amazing to me that this was done while the very ones who we depended on to protect our system stood by sitting on thier hands and said nothing. Incredible! Im numb like most
He needs Tamaflu not Z-Pack. I was diagnosed with Flu at Thanksgiving. Had a nose swab test. Doc gave me a script for Z-Pack but told me to wait an hour before I filled it. He would let me know if I had flu. I did. He called in Tamaflu for me. 10 pills with my insurance cost $115. Best money I have ever spent to make me feel better. After 1st pill, I started to come back to life. (I was feeling like a kicked dog)
In general, there is only one basic result that will happen with Obamacare or any rigged market, socialized medicine scheme. It is the same every time, everywhere
More government involvement and more price-and-supply fixing by the government, the more shortages, long-waits, and higher prices that will occur.
Quit whining, 12 hours in CommieCare is the Express Lane. Think of all those old, sick, and other non-economically viable that will not get past the Death Panels.
Next time ask for a paper script that he can take to the pharmacy himself.
My old Dr. (long retired) wouldn’t have given me a prescription for an antibiotic over the phone under any circumstance. And he wouldn’t have given me one in person if I had the flu.
What the heck does it have to do with Odumbo care?
I burns me up that idiots want, expect (and get) antibiotics for every damn sniffle and virus. They don’t help one bit for such things and the practice is what has lead to so called “super bugs” that are no longer vulnerable to antibiotics.
All of those who insist on the inappropriate use of antibiotics are quite literally making the rest of us sick.
This is just the beginning.
My friends who watched news too much, who were screeching, back in October, that Ted Cruz was way off in not allowing BOcare to self implode will be walking that back.
He is the only face of sanity over this crisis people will remember as one who cares.
The doc shouldn’t prescribe meds without seeing the patient. Then the doc would earn his money by explaining about the dangers of taking unnecessary antibiotics.
Perhaps a 900 toll number could be employed by the clinic for priority calls. It might be worth an extra $20-50 depending on the urgency. I would still be cheaper and faster than an in-person visit.