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ECONOMY OF SCALE: The Wall Street Journal reports that “the combined company will have significantly heightened bargaining power in negotiating with hospitals and doctors,” a factor the companies hope “will boost profits and possibly even drive down medical costs to patients.” And it follows that “hospitals and doctors will be willing to offer more enticing price concessions […]
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Once again a BENCH TRIAL, don’t know if Walgreens asked for a trial by jury and it was denied by the judge who mandated a BENCH TRIAL. So that the judge is judge and jury. This whole agreement is both interesting and a contradiction. Walgreens “agreed” to pay $500 million – while admitting no wrongdoing […]
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The 3 largest drug wholesalers – all of whom are publicly traded companies – got to pay a fine to settle similar violations and continue in business but apparently, this 180-year-old family-owned business was shut down by the DEA because it was unique in its willingness to challenge those accusations in the DEA’s administrative court. […]
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By the time you read this, hopefully, I will have my NEW PARTIAL LEFT KNEE. Unlike too many people, I did not wait until all three points that the knee rests on deteriorated to bone on bone and I only had one of three of those points is bone on bone. They tell me that […]
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What could go wrong with taking Andrew Kolodny’s advice on the fabricated opioid crisis? Just look at the J&J trial in OK, with J&J being charged with being a public nuisance, because they were the raw opioid powder wholesaler to the rest of the pharma industry that made FDA-approved opioid medications. Reported, Kolondy was hired […]
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This is an interesting read, outlining how all the states spent the BILLIONS they got from the 1998 Tobacco Settle. This hyperlink in particular hyperlink https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/what-we-do/us/statereport shows that collectively the 50 states spent < 3% of what they agreed upon on tobacco smoking cessation programs. The tobacco money was a 25 yr payout, maybe that […]
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Pres Biden apparently has a “soft place” in his heart – or head – for substance abusers/addicts. Could that help explain why he stopped the building of the wall along our southern border? Of course, per our 8th Amendment, the SCOTUS ruled years ago that the issue of “cruel and unusual punishment” only applies to […]
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Is there anything that politicians can’t give themselves the authority to do? Personally, I am concerned about gender reassignment for people below 18y/o – 21 y/o especially without parental consent. Many healthcare professionals would consider it highly unethical to terminate medicinal gender transition therapy in the middle. What other chronic health issues are politicians with […]
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Your Pain, Your Rights: Dealing With Your Physician And Your Hospital https://rsds.org/your-pain-your-rights-dealing-with-your-physician-and-your-hospital/ Although I had concentrated on legal issues relating to pain in terminal illness, I had never even heard of CRPS until I got a call from a young mother in California with the crippling syndrome. She had gone from being an athletic, employed, confident woman to one […]
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I am not sure what this really means, but if the PBM has anything that resembles a “free hand” in setting up out-of-pocket costs for Medicare Part D programs, it will be the pt that gets financially screwed and the PBM industry will prosper financially. Barb has been Part D prgm since they started in […]
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