As drugstores close, older people are left in 'pharmacy deserts'

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Is 12 miles a long drive for a pharmacy? It&#x27;s certainly more out of the way, less convenient, but I think you could still drive there for your monthly refills or etc?

Counterpoint: Pharmacies that delivery nationally make it faster&#x2F;easier to get a prescription filled than ever.<p>Broadly, I&#x27;m not sure the virtue of trying to make it artificially cheaper to live in remote areas.

For $5 a month my local pharmacy delivers to my door.

&gt;In July, a notice appeared on the front door of The Drug Store, the only pharmacy in rural Kernville, Calif.<p>&gt;That leaves Kernville residents in what researchers call a pharmacy desert, defined as living more than 10 miles from the nearest pharmacy in rural areas, two miles away in suburban communities, or a mile away in urban neighborhoods.<p>Kernville, CA is not a city, town, or even a village, it is a census-designated place with a population of 1,549 (2020). Is this really the best example of a &#x27;pharmacy desert&#x27; that the reports could find?

I’ve tired to resist giving up on physical pharmacies but the quality of service is absolutely atrocious in the ones near me, and I live in a prosperous city. So I’ve moved on to online pharmacies for convenience. We used to have more local pharmacies that were amazing. Unfortunately government bureaucracies and ideological wars have killed most of them. See California’s war on compounding pharmacies.

Very US centric article and comments.<p>From the intricacies of preferred places (whatever that is) to shoplifting at in-store pharmacies..<p>My personal guess: The millennial working population with two working parents just drives to the 12-mile-away pharmacy on their commute; Or they choose lower prices and mail delivery.<p>I doubt vertical integration, insurance plans or theft can be an issue. In the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, the number of &quot;Apotheken&quot; declined by 25% in the last 10 years. And we share none of these hyper-special US problems.