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.
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.