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Optum audit shows possible law violation, lower payments to independent pharmacies https://mississippitoday.org/2024/11/07/optum-audit-shows-possible-law-violation/ The findings of a recent audit of a major company that manages prescription benefits revealed it may have violated Mississippi law. The review of Minnesota-based Optum’s business practices by the Mississippi Board of Pharmacy indicated that the company paid independent pharmacies in Mississippi […]

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Chronic Pain Affects One in Four Americans, CDC Reports Nearly 9% have pain severe enough to restrict daily activities https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/painmanagement/113052 Chronic pain affected nearly one in four U.S. adults, new CDC survey data showed. In 2023, 24.3% of adults had chronic pain lasting 3 months or longer, reported Jacqueline Lucas, MPH, and Inderbir Sohi, MSPH, […]

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Oxygen Company Too Big to Ban? We expanded our independent pharmacy into providing Home Medical Equipment (HME) in the early 1980’s. Providing home Oxygen and other respiratory services turned out to be a large part of our HME business. After a decade in the business, with annual inflation being in the 3%-4% range, Medicare never […]

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Abandoned in Pain: A Family’s Fight Against UCHealth’s Neglect https://www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/abandoned-in-pain-a-familys-fight?triedRedirect=true Exposing the Healthcare System’s Betrayal of Chronic Pain Patients—Share to Demand Accountability This article is an opinion piece based on my personal experiences and interviews. The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of any organization or publication. I remember […]

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Using a COLA calculator, a SINGLE DOLLAR in 2003 is $1.66 in 2023 dollars. These charts indicate that the major insurance companies have increased their profits and spending on lobbying by 5- 10 times what was done over two decades.  Does it seem that these insurance companies primary focus was on “healthy profits”?

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@everyone https://discourse.nomineesforthepeople.com/t/steve-ariens/36342   Your support and votes are appreciated – see link above Here is a video of a Federal attorney that elaborates how they use normally “innocent statements” from prescribers and pharmacist and daisy chain various otherwise “innocent activities” into violations of the Controlled Substance Act and the number of charges against the healthcare […]

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pic.twitter.com/d6BiayAjwy — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 11, 2024 To prove Pres Trump’s “facts”, I recently applied a COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) to what my last year’s tuition at Butler U – my Alma Mater – was and the calculation was abt $6,000/semester in today’s dollars. My interest is because our only Grandson is headed […]

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Bill Gates belongs in jail. pic.twitter.com/HW7SjVb5EL — Steven Miller, MD, PhD (@SageListener) November 9, 2024

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