Our dog Clementine is part of the family. (That’s her helping read her lab report. She’s a Golden Doodle rescue that spent her first year in Lake Tahoe before moving to Texas. She’s not a cheap date. She has three different veterinarians. She has a veterinary behaviorist for her mental health (she’s an odd dog). She also has a regular veterinarian for routine health needs, and we use a cheaper veterinary clinic housed in a Walmart for lab work and vaccinations. If we sound like overindulgent pet owners, we’re not alone according to the New York Times.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Patients Worry about Seeing Their Doctor, Want More Information During Visit
Americans’ anxiety about seeing their physicians is partly related to our health care system’s utter indifference to transparency caused by a lack of competition. The shortage of primary care physicians certainly doesn’t help. When your primary care physician’s schedule is fully booked you have few other options if you are not getting the information you need to manage your health. I have found that being clear and honest about being price sensitive helps.
What’s Wrong with the PBM Market?
People who need expensive drugs are being overcharged so that drug insurance premiums can be artificially lowered for everyone – including all the people who don’t need those drugs. In this way, the sick are subsidizing the healthy.
More on What Motivates Fauci
Both during AIDS and during Covid-19, Fauci and company fought the use of inexpensive, repurposed drugs to help people’s immune systems fight off the threats. [Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] argues that they were motivated by a desire to bring pharmaceutical products to market—both antivirals and vaccines—without facing cheap competition, as a portion of Big Pharma’s profits would make their way into the public health officials’ pockets.
Quoted in a brief book review by David Henderson, who doesn’t necessarily agree with everything Kennedy has to say on the subject.