Missouri

mahatmakanejeeves

(61,612 posts) Thu May 12, 2022, 12:35 PM May 2022

Mo. House and Senate have passed a gag rule forbidding pharmacists from proactively questioning ...

Recall the GOP has a pattern of this particular kind of bullshit, like passing laws telling doctors they can't ask about guns in the home.

The party of limited government, the party of free speech.

It appears the Missouri House and Senate have passed a gag rule forbidding pharmacists from proactively questioning the efficacy of ivermectin treatment for anything. https://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills221/hlrbillspdf/4028H.06S.pdf h/t
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Mo. House and Senate have passed a gag rule forbidding pharmacists from proactively questioning ... (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2022 OP

For folks that cry "free speech" when they AleksS May 2022 #1

repug traitors do not believe in freedom when they have attacked masks samsingh May 2022 #2

A little odd... but is this even needed even if we imagine that ivermectin is useful? FBaggins May 2022 #3

Is it a prescribed med or available OTC? mahatmakanejeeves May 2022 #4

It's prescribed FBaggins May 2022 #5

Why a law telling doctors they can't ask about guns in the home? LiberatedUSA May 2022 #6

AleksS

(1,701 posts)

1. For folks that cry "free speech" when they

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu May 12, 2022, 12:39 PM

May 2022

get kicked off Twitter, the GrOPers sure do like limiting everyone’s free speech.

samsingh

(17,900 posts)

2. repug traitors do not believe in freedom when they have attacked masks

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu May 12, 2022, 12:40 PM

May 2022

they only care about destroying the current American way of life.

FBaggins

(27,802 posts)

3. A little odd... but is this even needed even if we imagine that ivermectin is useful?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu May 12, 2022, 12:42 PM

May 2022

Do pharmacists generally have a role to question the drugs that physicians prescribe?

mahatmakanejeeves

(61,612 posts)

4. Is it a prescribed med or available OTC?

Reply to FBaggins (Reply #3)

Thu May 12, 2022, 12:43 PM

May 2022

Asking seriously. I don't know. Thanks.

FBaggins

(27,802 posts)

5. It's prescribed

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #4)

Thu May 12, 2022, 12:49 PM

May 2022

Unless you go out and buy the livestock version from a farm supply store.

The law basically says that the pharmacist can't call up the doctor and say "are you crazy??"

LiberatedUSA

(1,666 posts)

6. Why a law telling doctors they can't ask about guns in the home?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2022, 06:09 PM

May 2022

As far as I am aware, it isn’t illegal to lie to the doctor and say “no, I don’t own any”, in order to keep one’s gun ownership from prying eyes.

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