And it's just not in Washington. We need to keep vigilant with ALL politicians, even at the state and local level. Case in point: we recently discovered while we were traveling through New York state, that if you need an emergency refill of a prescription from another state, New York law requires the entire prescription to be brought to NY, and to top it off, NY will zero out any remaining refills on that prescription. So, if we tried to take that prescription back to our home state of Florida, it would have no further refills. How New York could take jurisdiction over our personal prescriptions as citizens of another state is beyond me. We ended up calling our doctor, and having him phone in a one-time new prescription to the NY pharmacy.
No wonder medical costs are through the roof. The doctor, the doctor's staff, the pharmacist and the pharmacy staff all had to spend time on this problem. The state of NY basically told us we had no right to manage our refills across state lines. And it's not like it was a controlled substance or anything ... we're talking glipizide here, for goodness sakes.
“And it’s not like it was a controlled substance or anything ... “
given the hoops you had to jump through, sounds to me like it already is a controlled substance
(as if that label justifies loss of liberty)