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This is a really good point. People in HMOs may have a complication not mentioned--my HMO, for example, only allows you to refill for a 30-day supply, so stocking up would be difficult if not impossible without incurring a lot of additional cost. Carole Cassidy At 02:19 AM 7/18/98 -0500, you wrote: >Jerry Finch raised the topic of the year 2000 problem for our PC's. >There are also implications for our prescription drugs. Getting our >prescriptions filled is the end result of a long chain of related >processes you can trace all the way back to obtaining whatever raw >materials go into them. There are computer systems all along the >way, for manufacturing control, inventory, delivery, accounting, drug >dispensing, and insurance. As people who depend on prescription >drugs, we need some assurances that these will all be working, >otherwise we may have to consider contigency steps such as stocking >up in advance. > >Phil Tompkins >Hoboken NJ >60/9 > >