PHARMACIST STEVE

IS MAHA A MIRAGE OR JUST MIA OR AWOL ?

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   Alpha Wolf, on July 21, 2025 at 2:23 pm said:

   Well, considering the fact that I just read an article that states RFK has suggested that Medicare start paying more to primary doctors for prevention and less to specialists for treatment of advanced diseases, I would have to go with it being a mirage. Because that means those who already have diseases that need to be treated are inevitably going to have a more difficult time finding someone who will treat them due to newly lowered payment rates. It seems to me that when coupled with some of the other proposals, it’s merely going to make the data appear to support that people are actually becoming more healthy and have less need for treatment of advanced disease when the reality is that there isn’t less need or more people becoming healthier, it’s just a grand illusion. Not only that, but I’ll not be wearing a “health tracker” even if I have to give up Medicaid because of it. I don’t need anyone telling me how I could be doing better when I have spent the last 32 years with providers telling me how I could be doing better if I would only exercise more and change my diet. No thank you. I eat what I can afford to eat and exercise as much as my body will allow me to without sending me off into skyhigh pain level land. I highly doubt a wearable health tracker is going to make me feel any better about the things that I already know I can’t do. Just saying, if it were that easy, the vast majority of chronic pain patients would have been healthy a long time ago. We have been being derided and blamed for the state our bodies are in for decades now. If it has helped, I’ve never met anyone who said it has. For me, this isn’t a partisan issue. I am more concerned about how any new policies will impact myself as well as fellow chronic pain and illness sufferers than I am what party it’s coming from. Pain isn’t a partisan issue, either, so I just wanted to put that out there.

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