Actually, I take back my comment about having the option not to fill a prescription. Since most prescriptions must be sent electronically from the doctor’s office to the pharmacy, you have to tell the doctor you don’t want it sent in or to put it on hold. It’s more than semantics as it makes it harder on the patient to decide later. The laws enacted to prevent prescription abuse effect us all…
RY: even if you make your own yogurt, milk isn’t exactly cheap either. And for better or worse, if probiotics were prescribed and covered, the cost to the insurers at least would go down.