Those subsidies are flowing to the BIG “insurance” companies….the corporations that Americans 🇺🇸 are so frustrated with get as much as 91% of their revenue from taxpayers. In 2023, federal subsidies for health insurance est to be $1.8 trillion (7% of GDP) Chart from

DrOzCMS Each link in the chain doesn’t just profit independently — their incentives stack. •Step 1: Manufacturer sets a higher list price. •Step 2: PBM uses that inflated price to negotiate bigger rebates (and keep a cut). •Step 3: Wholesaler applies their percentage-based markup to

Google is free. You should do some research on your own field and contracts. Yikes google.com/search?q=do+pb…

They’re not protecting access. They’re not negotiating your costs. They’re not maintaining supply chains. They’re not providing competition. They’re extracting margin at every level of the healthcare stack, while independents die and patients pay more. They don’t care how much

The real health insurance scam is that they know as their deductibles go up, fewer people can afford to use their insurance. Which means they don’t have insurance. Despite having to pay premiums. It may sound counter intuitive , but if you can’t afford your deductible, you

Without PBM’s we would have cheaper meds. No ifs, ands, or buts. x.com/concernedpharm… x.com/concernedpharm…

What's never discussed is the impact the big 3 drug wholesalers and PBMs have on pricing, More distortion. In a real market , the wholesalers would compete with each other to get the lowest price from brand drug manufacturers They don't. Any pharmacies out there want to

Cutting out middlemen (PBM’s) does lower costs. The “coverage” people think they’re getting is mostly a shell game built to funnel profit, not savings. FTC Antitrust Division

PBMs aren’t only middlemen. They also dictate your care. Forcing stable patients off stable therapy for higher rebate capture isn’t cost control. It’s profiteering based off disease states. Buddy Carter Sen. Bernie Sanders Bill Cassidy, M.D. Senator Dick Durbin AMA FTC President Donald J. Trump

Two different patients, two vastly different outcomes: Patient #1 presents prescription for oxycodone/acetaminophen 5/325mg #12 tablets. Sent to insurance and we were paid 91 cents. Patient copay $0 We took off insurance and patient was willing to pay a fair cash price….

Why does CVSCaremark still get to participate in Medicare? My Pharmacy would be banned. And CVS audits me.Morgan Griffith Buddy Carter HHS.gov Unofficial Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Attorney General Pamela Bondi NCPA PUTT Donald J. Trump @realdon nypost.com/2025/08/21/bus…

Pay attention to this excerpt: “We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary.  I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us.”

Mitochondria are microscopic. You cannot diagnose “mitochondrial challenges” by glaring at a child in an airport. What you can do is prey on parents fears with pseudoscience, while ignoring the real crises our kids face, like gun violence, food insecurity, and lack of healthcare.

Time for every pharmacy/pharmacist on here to drop Humana for 2026.

Cannibalism At The Pharmacy Counter levernews.com/cannibalism-at…

Crazy? The pharmacy has to buy the bagel for $400 from a big wholesaler, then get rebates to try to get their cost down to the $7. Which they can only do if they buy 90 plus percent of their generic bagels from their big primary wholesaler. If they buy generic bagels elsewhere,

"...These middlemen in the drug supply chain don’t discover new medicines. They don’t manufacture them. They don’t even physically dispense most prescriptions. Yet they rake in tens of billions of dollars each year by driving up costs for everyone else — especially patients