This week, we celebrated our son’s birthday. For those who don’t know, I started this petition after my son, a transplant patient, received is medications without protection from the extreme temperatures. Soon after, he went into transplant rejection. I found out the hard way that the temperatures of medications shipped from mail-order pharmacy is very loosely regulated and not regulated by the FDA at all. All medications, including room temperature medications, are temperature sensitive at some point.

Here we are 2 years after starting the petition with little changes. I’ve spoken to our representatives and large media outlets. All are aware that every day that patients are forced to mail-order pharmacy that lives are being risked, but few will help us to warn patients across our nation, create change, and save lives.

The holidays are coming. Every year, there is an increase around the holidays of patients who are forced to mail-order pharmacy who are without life-saving medications. Most life-saving medications are not prioritized over Christmas presents as mail is sorted by the class of shipping and not by necessity.

How many more birthdays will pass before we see change? How many more lives will have to be risked for the profits of the insurance companies that force or steer patients to their owned mail-order pharmacies that have proven to care more about their profits than the integrity and safety of medications, safe pharmaceutical care, and safe access to medications from local pharmacies that often offer free delivery in temperature-controlled vehicles?

To the administration of USPS, UPS, Fed Ex. These delivery services are aware of the extreme temperatures of the truck as they are not temperature-controlled and offer little protection from freezing and in the summer they reach temperatures of 120-170 degrees, yet they fail to protect the lives of the workers and the lives of patients.

All of these corporations are profiting from the risking of lives. This must stop.

Thank you for your support,

Loretta Boesing