This is the Kido Daily Podcast for Tuesday, January 8th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Some of the biggest costs in obtaining prescription drugs,

getting the actual prescription, not to mention taking time off of work, and

spending money on a doctor's visit.

Naomi Lopez-Bowman of the Goldwater Institute argues that allowing pharmacists to broaden their

prescription authorities could save money, time,

and give people more control over their health.

Between the DEA and the FDA, drug enforcement and food and Drug Administration, they essentially control

whether or not you have the right to prescribe certain medications.

So that limits a lot of what states can do in terms of

making it easier for people to just get what they want and get what they need.

But what can states do to make it less onerous for people to, you know, you want a prescription,

you have to go visit a physician.

The physician has to agree with you that this is a prescription that you

that would help you and then you go to the pharmacy and get it what what parts of

that process can states just remove or make less onerous. There are a lot of areas

where states can make it far easier, more consumer and patient-centric to allow

people better access to the care that they that they need and

one of the ways is called scope of practice where states can authorize

pharmacists to actually write prescriptions which which means that if you need, for example,

birth control or antihistamines that are prescription, you can go into a pharmacy,

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