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Manufacturers of the 10 medications listed under the novel Medicare price-negotiation program exploited patent laws to keep costs high for patients, according to a new report from the watchdog group Accountable.US.

The report comes nearly two years after… Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act and with it launched the historic Medicare negotiation program, which allows the Department of Health and Human Services to directly negotiate with drug companies to lower the prices of some of the most expensive but commonly used prescription drugs. Continue reading →

Well this is interesting. I was prescribed Geodon (a schizophrenia medication) for my depression. The side-effects were horrific. I went to open payments. The doctor (who I’m not gonna name because law suits give me hives) was paid $36,320.81 over 80 transactions in 2013 alone. ~ Drown Dead
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Medicare Advantage Plans To Be Squeezed Next Year, Reduce Benefits
Medicare Advantage plans are popular. They’re estimated to have enrolled more than half of Medicare beneficiaries for the first time in 2024.

But changes are underway. Those enrolled in Advantage plans or considering them need to pay careful attention when evaluating plans in this fall’s open enrollment season. There could be significant modifications to existing Advantage plans.

Medicare continues to consume a higher percentage of federal government spending each year and government policymakers continue to revise the program to reduce spending on Medicare, especially Medicare Advantage plans… (Continue to full article)

60 Arizona Providers and Patients Put State on Notice That They’ll Sue Over Medicaid Fraud
A group of Arizona behavioral health providers and clients say they’ve put the state on notice of an intent to file multiple lawsuits over the recent Medicaid fraud scandal.

Leaders of the effort say they filed 60 notices of claim — precursors to lawsuits — Friday with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.

The notices of claim, which name the state of Arizona as a defendant, collectively add up to $2.3 billion, said group organizer André Miller, a Mesa pastor and second vice president of the NAACP’s Arizona Conference.

Among defendants in the notices of claim are Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, the Arizona Department of Health Services, and the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, which is Arizona’s Medicaid program and often known as AHCCCS (pronounced access)… (Continue to full article)

Risk Assessment Report Suggests Fewer Americans Need to Take Statins
The American Heart Assocation developed updated guidelines with a new equation to calculate risks of cardiovascular disease in today’s population.

Around 40 percent of the people currently advised to take statins would not be if they were assessed using a new criteria, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

In 2023, the American Heart Association developed a risk assessment to evaluate a person’s risk of heart disease. The assessment, PREVENT, significantly reduces the number of people who must take statins to prevent heart disease.

“We don’t want people to think they were treated incorrectly in the past. They were treated with the best data we had when the PCE (a cardiovascular risk calculator) was introduced back in 2013… (Continue to full article)

Deceptive, Deflective, and Imperious Dr. Fauci on Capitol Hill
The United States House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, formerly the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, is a bipartisan United States House of Representatives select subcommittee that was created to provide congressional oversight of the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and was carried forward in an investigative role on the government pandemic response.

On June 3, 2024, former NIAID Director and presidential advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci was on Capitol Hill to answer questions from the committee. Democratic members poured praise on Fauci for “being a hero” and “saving millions of lives” while questions from Republican congressmen were pointed and accusatory.

Fauci is a Bullshi**ah – CLICK on the Link for a video report… (Continue to full article)

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Drugmakers including Pfizer, Sanofi and Takeda Pharmaceutical plan to raise prices in the US on more than 500 drugs in early January, according to data analyzed by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.

Excluding different doses and formulations, more than 140 brands of drugs will have their prices raised next month, the data showed.

The expected price hikes come as the pharmaceutical industry gears up for the Biden Administration to publish significantly discounted prices for 10 high-cost drugs in September, and continues to contend with higher inflation and manufacturing costs. Continue reading →