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Attention: Dr Tennant who supports us chronic pain patients is asking that we patients —wright Paul Ramsey letters and get Jane Ballantyne fired and removed !!! she’s the one who’s culpable in getting the CDC to write the restrictions and she’s claiming we don’t need opiodes and she stated that we pain patients need to […]
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Drug importation is not the solution to prescription drug costs https://www.bendbulletin.com/home/6981704-151/guest-column-drug-importation-is-not-the-solution State lawmakers are tired of waiting on their federal counterparts to act on prescription drug prices. The state Senate recently held a hearing on a bill that would call on the Board of Pharmacy to import prescription drugs from Canada. A companion bill, which […]
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U.S. Government Wants to Use Social Media to Decide Who Is ‘Disabled Enough’ for Disability Benefits https://themighty.com/2019/03/social-security-disability-benefits-monitoring-social-media/?utm_source=engagement_bar&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=facebook_share The U.S. government wants to use your Facebook posts to decide if you’re disabled. According to the New York Times, the Trump administration is proposing that Social Security Administration officials routinely examine the social media accounts of people […]
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Reports show pharmacy middlemen making big money in other states https://www.ohio.com/news/20190314/reports-show-pharmacy-middlemen-making-big-money-in-other-states/1 Pharmacy middlemen are making big money in at least two other Midwestern states’ Medicaid programs, according to two new analyses. The state-federal health insurance programs for the poor in Illinois and Kentucky appear to be even more profitable for pharmacy benefit managers than they […]
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Trump’s drug war power grab was sadly predictable https://theweek.com/articles/828991/trumps-drug-war-power-grab-sadly-predictable “We are. We are. We’re thinking about doing it very seriously,” President Trump told Breitbart News in an interview published Tuesday. The “it” in question is designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations, a move Trump said his administration has “been thinking about … for a long […]
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Opioid litigation brings company secrets into the public eye https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/03/13/npr-opioid-litigation-brings-company-secrets-into-the-public-eye America’s big drugmakers and pharmacy chains are scrambling to respond to hundreds of lawsuits tied to the deadly opioid epidemic. Billions of dollars are at stake if the companies are found liable for fueling the crisis. Even before judgments are rendered, companies like Purdue Pharma, […]
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“Gambling with Lives”: Oregon Medicaid cutting off opioids to chronic pain patients www.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 on Grandma.” But […]
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CALL TO ACTION. Beto O’Rourke, politicians, advocates, EVERYONE…please stand with doctors and patients to help fight for those fighting for a better quality of life and daily function to receive the correct treatments and medications. Stop blaming patients! Let’s all work together! We as a nation must come together to help those struggling for their […]
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