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Alabama health care and doctors. I moved here, and the doctor and healthcare are following their own guide lines. Need to know who can actually change the infastructure?

Currently my insulin prescription had to change due to the insurance no longer carrying it. When asking the doctor why, the patent has now gone to the open market to be manufactured by any pharmaceutical manufacturer in the industry. The cost would now go down, and a generic would be also available. So we are prescribing based on how much the insurance and pharmaceutical companies can make? Not on what is best and affordable for the patient? Also, in the state of Alabama, the doctors require a refferal even if you are paying on a PPO plan. PPO allows the patient to pick their own doctors, and not require a visit to a general practioner. Typically, I never got an answer as to why. Finally 1 doctor admitted, greed. There are other examples, however, the state of Alabama needs to get with the program. I have lived in 2 other states, and the doctors do not operate in this manner.

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