There are a lot of drugs that should be able without a prescription. I can get numerous drugs when I travel to India without a prescription for dirt cheap prices. Drug pressure medication or cholesterol medicine shouldn’t need a prescription for example.
While I agree, since most people have their insurance paid for by someone else, more or less, they would cry bloody murder if it had to be straight out of pocket.
How does this work, exactly? Are you going to diagnose your own high blood pressure or cholesterol levels and then decide which drug has the best chance of treating your condition, and the dose necessary? What happens if, after you decide on your own that you have a couple of serious health conditions that need treatment, you buy the drugs OTC and they have serious interactions with each other?
My point is that there are very strong reasons that medical advice is necessary before most drugs are prescribed. Very few people have the knowledge to diagnose and prescribe appropriately. And even the ones who do, should not be diagnosing and prescribing for themselves.
I’ve been on more than one BP med, and what you are saying is crazy talk. And I don’t even take those for high BP, but for something entirely different.