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You don't understand the context: the issue was not that the pharmacy software somehow innocently can't (automatically) find a pharmacy farther than 25 miles away from the current location. It was specifically CVS prevented this since 2023 arising from their opioid settlement, to prevent "pharmacy-shopping", and to comply with with "Good faith dispensing" legal requirement under the federal Controlled Substances Act (insulin is a non-controlled prescription medication but the PBMs and pharmacies seem to widely apply these restrictions on search (and prescription transfer), which seems silly). Here's [0] one 2024 article (from RI, but whatever) listing all the new controls they imposed on pharmacists and doctors (among other things, transferring prescriptions across state boundaries triggers alarms). As you read this insanity, remember that the Purdue Pharma execs convicted didn't go to prison [1], at most got 400 hours of community service + fines. The Sackler family were still sponsoring the NY Metropolitan until 2019, and none of them were even criminally charged. Anyway, there's your root-cause. It should not affect insulin or other things but clearly the knock-on effect is it does.

[0]: https://www.risehealth.org/insights-articles/article/justice...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue_Pharma