why is shopper's drug mart, now owned by loblaws, being allowed to charge a fee to get a pharmacist to extend a prescription? of course they're cramming that down our throats and trying to position their pharmacists as replacements for doctors, as it converts the process of prescribing medication to a for-profit service on the market. if you give capital a foot in the door like this, it will exploit and abuse it, which is why they lobbied for it.

no, i don't want to pay a pharmacist to renew my prescription. shut the fuck up and call my doctor, you fucking vampire.

marketing access to pharmacists as a paid service outside of the structure of ohip should be against the law and punishable with jail time. if this is allowed to continue, it's going to eat away at and dissolve the existing system until there's nothing left of it, as successive services that we assign to doctors in the monopolized insurance structure get taken over by less qualified people that can be paid less to provide it on the market and largely sell it in department stores as a commodity. the universality clause in our healthcare system gets converted to a McHealthCare run by multinational corporations for profit.

the progressive conservatives and liberals are collaborating on a race to the bottom to get to a market failure in healthcare delivery.