Quote Originally Posted by HerdBot View Post
Thats suprising although we could have made some progress by allowing pharmacies to be expanded. Apparently ND doesnt allow pharmacies is big box retailers. Its suprising because people need prescription drugs. All we do is export talent since we artificially keep the number of pharmacies low
We do allow them, but the pharmacy part has to be owned by a pharmacist, not by the big box retailer (at least I think that's right). The dean of HP has been fairly prominent in the past at advocating to keep things that way, so I'm not sure that's a big part of the problem. As TSF said, pharmacy enrollment is down nationally. I would guess that the move away from smaller, local pharmacies where you have a relationship with your clientele and toward the prescription filling machines that CVS and Walmart are might have something to do with it, despite the high level of pay for those positions...but that's not my area, so I'm just speculating....