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Robots, Pills And Conflicts Of Interest
from the what-happened-to-the-human-touch dept
More and more, it seems, robots are filling the prescriptions you get through your mail-order pharmacy. And, as insurance firms encourage their customers to order from their mail order firms, the likelihood that your prescription is filled by a machine, rather than a person, is high. This raises several questions: do we really trust robots to get every single pill in the bottle? And the right pill, for that matter? Is there a conflict-of-interest in that large pharmaceutical companies often own a stake in the mail-order firms? Personally, I'll take the friendly neighborhood pharmacist over a robot for this particular job.
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Why not?
This is a straightforward case of cutting out the middleman.
This is also a case where health insurers are the good guys, because they put pressure on pharmas to lower their prices.
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