I could not believe the convoluted process my wife had to use to get some allergy medicine. Initially, the local chain drug store is OK to use and one gets a pretty good discount. After 60 days, the drug store cannot give a discount and a mail order process with a specific company has to be used. The doctor has to fax the prescription in to this company in some unspecified way that makes the origin verifiable. Then there one has to wait for two weeks for the stuff to show up in the mail. When it doesn't the patient has to make umpteen calls to figure out what went wrong in the process. In the meanwhile, you are forced to pay full retail price to stay medicated.

Fortunately, Claritin and generic equivalents are now available "over the counter" w/o a prescription and for less than the original discounted price.