I know that many of you are not happy in how the election turned out, but if you want to continue to put your personal political opinions over what is the best for the chronic pain community. You can stop reading right here ! Just go ahead and shoot yourself in the foot or HEAD!
There is a new sheriff in town and he is bringing along a lot of deputies that are claiming that they are making a change to how things are done.
Trump has admitted that some of the people recommended to him in his first term were not the appropriate people for the tasks they were given. Perhaps many were covert members of “the swamp” that he was trying to drain.
I don’t think that Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr and whoever the new Attorney General will be of the previous SWAMP!
Musk claims he is going to focus on cutting costs – maybe he should look at all those 100 of millions of dollars being spent on Epidural Spinal Injection. That are not recommended by the FDA and the pharma that makes the corticosteroid most often used in ESIs. In reality those ESIs at best provide the pt some minor/temporary pain relief, but in the long run will cause more deterioration in the spine.
Those pain docs that are telling pts that they must be subjected to ESI to get some oral opioids, may be violating a federal law that is part of the Sherman Antitrust Act calling Tying Commerce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce) and providing those ESIs that are not really medically necessity, some consider it insurance fraud and if Medicare/Medicaid are involved then it could be considered federal fraud.
I read where – on average – TWO DOZEN – veterans commit SUICIDE EVERY DAY, because the VA system is refusing to treat those veteran who have come home with painful “broken bodies” and the VA system is just electing to ignore their pain.
Kennedy is suppose to be focusing on improving our health. Could working with our new Attorney General to get the DEA to focus on getting much of the ILLEGAL FENTANYL off our streets and causing all those poisoning/ODs.
IMO, the only thing that may stand in the way of the community making some progress is to DO NOTHING! That will guarantee that the community will GET NOTHING! There is nearly 11,000 post on my blogs and I have pulled some that I consider very appropriate to work with the new administration.
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Breaking: Supreme Court Rules ‘Red Flag’ Gun Laws Unconstitutional – should RED FLAGS used by DEA be UNCONSTITUTIONAL ?
US Attorney Admits that He was Directed to Target Doctors Who had NO criminal intent
Another reaction to the SCOTUS overturning the Chevron Doctrine
Is how the DEA enforces the CSA… in violation of this federal law ?
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Could this be why no one can get a law firm to sue medical care deniers
Pain Refugees: Collateral Damage of the War on Drugs
SCOTUS Petition Takes Aim at Ambiguous Federal Opioid RX Laws Aug 5 Written By Ronald Chapman II Lubetsky v. United States
How opioid prescriptions are tracked and monitored by law enforcement and health care providers
Filed under: General Problems
Do you really believe RFKJ knows our plight? …ESI’s?
Knows limits on pain care cause demand for street drug pain care? Do you believe we can contact him or his ppl? I love an optimist, & hope it follows…
Elon Mush wants to trim 2 trillion out of our budget. We are going to need the new AG, Musk & Kennedy to work in unison toward a shared goal. The have the Senate and they
may get the House. If that happens, Trump can issue a tsunami of EOs and no one is going to do anything unless there are a number of covert RINOs in Congress
This “new sheriff” is not one of the old bureaucrats from “the swamp”