Or relax the requirements so you don't need a 6-8 years of postsecondary education and a 250k degree to be a glorified cashier. And that is before even getting into the consolidation of the pharmacy/PBM industry.

I've spent a lot of time in tiny poor Mexican towns that manage to have a pharmacy, sometimes several. Not only that, but you can get hundreds of prescriptions over the counter that would cost thousand dollar doctors visits in the US.

I can only imagine every small town in the US would also have an economically viable pharmacy if the regulatory environment here was the same.

'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.

Those might be the only educated people for people to talk to in that entire extremely low density area