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Why A VP Kamala Harris Could Be A Disaster For Marijuana Policy “Kamala Is A Cop. No matter how excited Democratic voters may be about having the first woman of color on a presidential ticket, and no matter how liberal her Senate voting record may be, there is no escaping the fact that Senator Kamala Harris […]
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The Real “Death Panels”: Oregon Medicaid planned to cut off opioids to chronic pain patients https://tarbell.org/2019/03/gambling-with-lives-oregon-medicaid-cutting-off-opioids-to-chronic-pain-patients/ At the height of the Tea Party and Republican campaign against the Affordable Care Act, the GOP raised a false alarm about “death panels” that would purportedly kill the disabled based on a subjective judgment and “pull the plug […]
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Report: Medicare Advantage Plans Wrongly Deny Care, Physician Payments Feds found 18% of physician payment requests that were turned down met Medicare rules https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/98458 Medicare Advantage plans often denied medically necessary care to beneficiaries and payments to doctors that met Medicare coverage rules, according to a new report from the HHS Office of the Inspector […]
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Chronic pain pts are often advised never to ask the practitioner for a particular medication or strength for fear that they will be viewed as a “drug seeker”. When a pt goes to a doc’s office – regardless if it is a PCP or some specialist… If the pt’s labs are outside of normal ranges, […]
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Disinformation Head Nina Jankowicz The first video is of the person that Biden has appointed to head this new Disinformation Governance Board, One of her most infamous declaration of disinformation was that Hunter Biden laptop was “We should view it as a Trump campaign product ” in this article https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/disinformation-head-nina-jankowicz-addresses-hunter-biden-laptop-remarks/ar-AAWGM7G This quote was Oct 15,2020 […]
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Twitter employee undergoes therapy due to imminent @elonmusk takeover via @TheBabylonBee pic.twitter.com/b5sYLgQBGi — Babylon Bee fan (@BabylonBeeFan) April 25, 2022
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https://www.facebook.com/pharmaciststeve/posts/10227166972189416 SoWal Health & Drug dnospr0ha00h2301allh184h2t5 · Today I saved a patient a combined $200 ( yes, TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS!) on their 3 prescription medications. Their insurance copays THAT ARE SET EXCLUSIVELY BY THE INSURANCE COMPANY ( we don’t have any input on copays) were $110,$90 & $80 while my price without insurance for the […]
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It is a pretty accepted fact that the chronic pain community is – and has been – very divided… It seem that a small group of people who claim to be chronic pain pts and/or chronic pain advocates have been very busy at work trying to be more than just the “usual stuff” starting late […]
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Until COVID-19 became a issue, historically… medical errors was the third largest cause of death. After Cancer and cardiovascular. Has the DOJ and our judicial system got a “taste of blood” as more and more prescribers are being taken to court over mostly fabricated violations of the Controlled Substance Act. As more and more District […]
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