Some of us have noticed that it seems as if a lot of chronic painers have just given up!
Our judicial system does not give a crap about you! They are going after the businesses that provide medical care to you. They have sued the 3 major drug wholesaler that control 85% of the wholesale drug marketplace and got them to pay them billions of dollars in fines and AGREE TO SELL FEWER CONTROL MEDS TO COMMUNITY PHARMACIES.
The Insurance/PBM industry is driving pharmacies out of business by often paying the pharmacy less for your prescription than they have to pay for your medication from their wholesaler.
Since 2019, nearly 7,000 pharmacies have closed across the country. Rite Aid is finishing off their final bankruptcy phase, liquidating 1,000 stores. Walgreens is selling the entire company off to a private investment firm. They recently stopped paying a dividend on their stock after paying dividends for 109 yrs. 10-15 yrs ago Walgreen was worth 100 billion but it is reported they are getting 10 billion for the company by the end of the year. I expect them close 2,000-2,500 of their 8,600 stores in the next 1-2 yrs, and then sell off what remains and that will mean more stores closing. Pharmacy deserts are growing dramatically. Especially in rural areas and low income areas.
Above is a blog post that tells you want you should do or shouldn’t do if you want to get the attention of the member of Congress that represents you in Congress.
You can use the same information when you are trying to reach out to local TV news media. I can almost guarantee that little to no one in the local TV media have no idea how many chronic pain pts are under “house arrest” – house,chair, bed confined because of lack of pain management, not because they broke some law.
They are not looking for you, I know locally they are all focused on all the people & cops getting shot. This week, it is all about the largest city in Kentucky is no longer going to be a sanctuary city.
here is a AI program https://claude.ai/
I asked it this: Indiana TV Station News Desk Contact Information and it gave me all the news desks for TV stations in Indiana phone number and email.
I have created some graphics on the above GRAPHIC tab on my blog. To use – just cut and paste – with the letter or email that you want to use to get their attention along with your story of how our health care system is severely compromising your QOL.
A few weeks ago, I called the four major TV stations in my market and asked if they were hearing from pts not being able to get their meds. 4 out 4 was a firm NO!. I sent them all emails about what was going on and marked the email that I would be notified if it was OPENED – I only got TWO acknowledgements of being opened and NO ONE REACHED OUT TO ME ABOUT IT.
If the community doesn’t get their ASS IN GEAR… it is nothing more than a “dead man walking”
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