> The prescription requirement creates ample opportunities for logistical errors that turn into life-threatening emergencies.

And logistical errors with prescription medications in the United States happen all the time. My wife has two simple, common prescriptions, and when she comes in for refills, it's a complete crap-shoot of whether they are in.

You'd figure that the free market would find some way to optimize this sort of thing - but apparently, it's incapable of anything but gouging patients.