My health insurance company decided awhile back it wanted to save me some money by changing the way I can fill my prescriptions.

Instead of heading down to my corner drug store, now I have to use a specialty pharmacy in Raleigh that ships to us several products we need.

The drugs are not found in most medicine cabinets, and the insurance company says by contracting with the far-away pharmacies it can hold down costs it otherwise would have to pass on to me.

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