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America’s aging population faces a growing shortage of geriatric care https://www.businessinsider.com/geriatric-care-aging-population-boomers-healthcare-nursing-homes-doctor-shortage-2025-2 There’s a growing problem for older Americans: doctors who specialize in geriatric care are dwindling. More than 80 million Americans are expected to be older than 65 by 2050, according to the US Census Bureau. However, geriatricians are in short supply, which could complicate […]

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Five Things Patients With Low Back Pain Need From Their Doctors https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/114573 Hopelessness. Fear. Isolation. These are the feelings reflected in the stories we heard from people living with low back pain (LBP) who participated in two focus groups held by the Duke Clinical Research Institute These patients, members of our 300-person “Spine Squad,” volunteered […]

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When the CDC in 2016 created their version of opioid dosing guidelines, no one with any authority or visibility stood up and stated that the CDC did not have any statutory authority to create those guidelines and they had no statutory authority to cause any prescriber to follow those guidelines. Because they were JUST GUIDELINES, […]

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    This video is from 1996, from an action taken by a Humana medical reviewer in 1987. Back then, many healthcare companies would call themselves Managed Care companies. Some out in the community often referred to these entities as “Mangled Care”. This video seems to explain why many within healthcare referred to some of […]

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Why independent pharmacies are pushing back on Medicare’s drug price negotiation program https://www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025/02/18/why-independent-pharmacies-are-pushing-back-on-medicare-s-drug-price-negotiation-program Over 90% of independent pharmacy owners worry the program would severely hurt their finances, one survey reported. Independent pharmacies are sounding the alarm on Medicare Part D’s drug price negotiation program. The program, created under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), lets […]

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https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/kaiser.pdf Above is a link to a synopsis of the nearly 600-page agreement between 40+ state AGs and the three major drug wholesalers – who control about 80%-85% of all Rx med distribution to pharmacies. This agreement was not to see the light of day, and it took 1-1.5 yrs for someone to leak it. […]

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The drug war might be the perfect no-win scenario By Trish Randall https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/the_drug_war_might_be_the_perfect_nowin_scenario.html For reducing illicit drug use, violence, or property crime, drug prohibition has been as unsuccessful as alcohol prohibition was for initiating Utopia.  But as a method for propagating bureaucracy, it’s been wildly successful. Albert Einstein never said, “Insanity is doing the same thing, […]

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Cruel & Unusual Pain Treatment Trish Randall @trishrandall312428 Punishing one group for the behavior of another is the height of injustice https://substack.com/@trishrandall312428/p-158606067? America’s drug regulations rest on long-familiar, syllogism-like tendrils: Drugs are dangerous. Users can harm others. Laws target those who hurt people. Even if the drug war is unwinnable, punishing users who get caught […]

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Walgreens Seals $10 Billion Take-Private Deal With Sycamore https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/walgreens-seals-10-billion-take-private-deal-with-sycamore/ar-AA1ApjdU Walgreens’s almost centurylong run as a public company is coming to an end. The embattled drugstore chain has struck a deal to be taken private by Sycamore Partners in one of the biggest leveraged buyouts in recent memory. Sycamore has agreed to pay $11.45 a share […]

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Our next “health crisis” may be on the horizon. CMS is trying to save $$ on our national “medication cost”, which is admirable, but their apparent solution may cause a massive creation of “pharmacy desserts”.  When we opened our independent pharmacy in 1976, about 45,000 pharmacies – abt 80% were independent pharmacies.  I don’t remember […]

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