PHARMACIST STEVE

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Go-broke dates pushed back for Social Security, Medicare https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/go-broke-dates-pushed-back-social-security-medicare The time frame for Social Security and Medicare to go-broke has been pushed back, helped by a stronger-than-expected economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.The annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report says the Social Security trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits beginning in […]

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What some hospital healthcare employees are saying about GUN VIOLENCE https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/michael-dowling-every-single-us-hospital-leader-should-be-screaming-about-what-an-abomination-this-is.html Americans and global leaders have responded to the May 24 shooting at a Texas elementary school with heartbreak, anger and calls for change to better fight gun violence. But if you’re paying attention, the calls out of healthcare — from trauma surgeons, pediatricians, nurses, […]

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The GoodRx-Kroger Blowup: Spread Pricing, Pharmacy Margins, and the Future of Discount Cards https://www.drugchannels.net/2022/05/the-goodrx-kroger-blowup-spread-pricing.html A few weeks ago, GoodRx surprised investors with the unpleasant news that a major grocery chain had stopped accepting its discount card for an unspecified number of prescriptions. As I explain below, the unnamed chain appears to be Kroger—the sixth-largest U.S. […]

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PT called the clinic repeatedly complaining of pain and specifically targeted the doctor who performed the surgery I heard it through the GRAPEVINE A video diatribe attacking yours truly over something that I SHARED ? A doctor’s murder over an opioid prescription leaves an Indiana city with no easy answers It is unfortunate that a […]

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This is such a shame, I just wonder if this surgeon told this pt prior to the surgery that the surgery would “resolve his back pain”.  Of course, no surgeon can “promise” that surgery will “correct the problem”.  Apparently the pt had reach out to the surgeon to get something to help him manage his […]

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The PBM industry started in 1969-1970 and worked for many years under contracts with insurance companies.  At some point, all the major PBM’s became licensed insurance companies and were then protected from the Sherman Anti Trust act by the McCarran Ferguson Act, which exempted insurance companies from Sherman Anti trust. Over the decades, many different […]

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Hi Steve, I’ve been putting this ofc for quite some time, but now is appropriate, I think… Here goes… I was a nurse in a cardiac unit for six years. On September 6, 1987 I was hurt at work, the day before Labor Day and three days before my twenty ninth birthday. We were short […]

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www.foxnation.com Last night I was watching Tucker Carlson Tonight, because of it being a holiday show… he was showing “clips” from some of his Tucker Carlson Today stories which is on their streaming subscription service. One clip was concerning Amy Nelson and her Husband, who was and executive for Amazon Web Service – Amazon’s Cloud […]

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