Families Like Mine Depend on Their Local Pharmacy for Medicine and Survival
Guadalupe Hayes-Mota warns pharmacy closures are a public health emergency in slow motion.
Hayes-Mota writes, "These closures reflect an ethical failure: choosing investor profits over the duty to keep people healthy. Addressing this crisis requires three urgent steps: supporting underserved areas with targeted incentives and mobile or telepharmacy services, investing in the workforce through safe staffing and career pathways, and granting pharmacists provider status with expanded scope of practice.
Guadalupe Hayes-Mota, director, bioethics, published in STAT News.
Oct 27, 2025