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To: doc30
The only exception would be a small community served by a single pharmacy. Then the pharmacists has no right to hold the resodence hostage.

I disagree. A business should operate according to whatever policies it chooses, free from government interference. If I am a supermarket and I choose not to sell apples, that's my right. The same should apply to pharmacies. If people want to boycott my business because of what I choose not to sell, then they have that right too.

156 posted on 05/03/2005 9:54:46 AM PDT by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: A Ruckus of Dogs
A business should operate according to whatever policies it chooses

All businesses operate with some form of government interference. It's called regulation. Differnet businesses operate under different levels of regulation and liscencing. Doctors and pharmacists must be liscenced to practice in their respective states. If the regulations state how a prescription is to be filled, the pharmacist must follow the regulations or risk losing their liscence. Based on your arguement, that businesses should be free from government interference means that you are advocating that doctors and pharmacists do not need to meet any requirements to practice their profession. They do not need to go to school. They do not need to pass state liscencing exams in order to prove they are competent. You are technically advocating anarchy in the profesisonal realm where anyone can hagn up a shingle and do business. That would be a very scarey place to live.

195 posted on 05/03/2005 11:52:32 AM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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