If you are insured, than they should know if that pharmacy plans to not honor medications. I get frustrated with my insurance company, but I would not want an additional inconvenience tacked on of finding a pharmacy that will fill the prescription my physician gave me.
I am speaking broadly here, there are medications that pharmacies will not dispense either for moral reason's or for the safety of their other patients.
Either way, it is the patient who is getting short end of the stick.
I have no doubt this article will stimulate yet another excellent debate on Free Republic.
And what happens if the pharmacy calls your insurance company, and the individual insurance rep on the line has a moral problem with a medicine you're taking and refusing to reimburse you? It's a dangerous road.
If a lib did something like this they would not be able to fire them because of 200 ACLU lawyers crowding the store.
Or more to the point, they're paying a price for being Christians who want to practice what their Church teaches.
These four pharmacists have been terminated from Wags for not following company policy. Fine. But, the company policy is to follow the law. And that is where the problem lies. The governor has installed an emergency ruling REQUIRING all pharmacists to dispense emergency contraception without delay. This law says nothing about religous or moral beliefs. Those problems we will always encounter, fine, so be it. But, please understand that a pharmacist who doesn't care about those beliefs and would dispense the pill regularly now has his hands tied to do his professional duty. I am a pharmacist, in illinois, and feel appalled that the governor is taking away my pharmacist duty of protecting the patient's safety. We are currently required to do a "prospective drug review" that means we look at other meds the doctor may not know about and her disease states, and current health status, and we then make a professional decision to dispense or intervene. That has been taken away by this quick tempered government. That is the REAL problem, not the religious beliefs. Those are just coming to light because of the primary problem.
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God bless them for not participating in the death of a baby!
The article says the reason they were "put on leave" is that STATE law requires them to fill these scrips. It's not a private-business decision, it's the law.