Increase in average delivery times, ranging from 18-32% (USPS mail-order drugs)

[Nevilledog]

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[jpak]

1. How many people will suffer or die for Trump?

[Hoyt]

2. Seems easy to fix. Pharmacies should process drugs one to two days earlier.

The increase in delivery time is hardly noticeable. If someone needs drugs without a one day delay, pharmacies need to send it priority. People need to order a day or two earlier too.

According to article: "In general, this meant that deliveries that would typically take 2-3 days were instead taking 3-4 days."

[Massacure]

3. It's not as simple as that.

For example I'm a diabetic on an insulin pump. I'm not allowed to order new infusion sets for it until I'm down to something like seven or 10 days of supply left. I'm lucky to have a choice of a couple in network distributors, because one of them was super slow - there would be times where I would put in an order Thursday morning and it wouldn't ship until Monday afternoon. There are times where I would get uncomfortably close to running out of supplies.

I have syringes available just in case my pump were to ever fail and I could fall back to multiple injections per day. I'm comfortable safely managing that for a couple of days, but it's an example of being forced into a "just in time" delivery model.

[Hoyt]

4. I get it. That's the point, they need to allow you to order a few days early. When we are in the

middle of a pandemic everyone involved needs to make some changes and that includes the drug management companies that won't let you order until close to last minute. If the pharmacy needs to pay to send it guaranteed overnight, so be it.

A one day delay in mail processing -- in a pandemic -- is not a big deal if EVERYONE in the chain doesn't hold things up further. One day difference in delivery time, is essentially what the study found. Now, to get all these folks to cooperate is beyond the trump Admin, that's for sure.