Back when I use to go to Washington DC with NCPA annual legislative convention.. this is a quote that was often heard..
The actions/reactions happening in MA and their BOP.. seems to fit into this saying
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1061180031
Per the article… the BOP now has a board member that comes from the insurance industry, the LTC industry and a hospital system… none seem to have a pharmacy background.
From the article:
This week the Board of Pharmacy also held a public hearing on emergency regulations put in place by the Patrick-Murray Administration to enhance monitoring and scrutiny of the compounding industry.
Unless I am mistaken.. was this previously been referred to as USP 797 Standards that has been in place for years… and apparently the previous BOP failed to enforce? It would appear that like most bureaucrats, when they fail to enforce a rule/regulation/law… they pass new rules/regulations/laws to demonstrate that they are doing something positive where they have failed before..
I saw a quote years ago from some executive … “.. we have 10-15 MILLION rules/regulations/laws .. to enforce the 10 commandments…”
For those of you old enough to remember the first pharmacy computer/software systems… which were generally written either by a programmer that had no reference to how a pharmacy operated or a Pharmacist consulting with a software company to write the software… what we had was a computerized processes that in no way resembled how things were done in a manual way… and you had to either deal with function keys or menu driven DOS systems… Not very user friendly..
Could MA being going down a similar path… the pharmacy bureaucrat system being influenced by persons that have little idea of how the pharmacy system does/should operate?
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