Not too challenging for you based on your profit report. Someday soon someone will refuse your dirty bribe $$ and do the right thing, breaking up your monopoly and restricting your role to what you should actually do, processing claims. FTC Ron Wyden Chuck Grassley

#shanahyder Steve Forbes great article! Let’s dive deeper on the middlemen - your readership can handle the complexity if they don’t already know about it!

Yup

What an asshole

Wow! SOS true and Rands Dad had - get this..... a PHARMACY that was seized by the govt which got her really jazzing about capitalism in America. Too bad this quote is true as In America we don’t have capitalism. We have corporatism

Amgen's Enbrel & Abbvie's Humira compete. But not really. One month after Abbvie hiked Humira monthly price by 7.4% to $5968, Amgen boosted Enbrel monthly price by--you guessed it--$7.4% to $5968. This isn't competition. This is shadow pricing & it hurts patients/consumers.

In America, patients are forced to D-rated mail order pharmacies as the only option of coverage for life-saving medications. #stopPBMabuse #insulin4all Safe access to medications is as critical as affordability. bbb.org/us/mo/saint-lo…

China refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, one of the team's investigators said, potentially complicating efforts to understand how the outbreak began.​ reuters.com/article/us-hea…

Read this article from Robert Pearl, MD : "How Health Insurance Became America’s Biggest Hustle" drugch.nl/300OB8L Forbes A deeply cynical -- but largely accurate -- explanation of the con behind high-deductible health plans #HDHP

Today's fun #PBM / #Insurer vertical integration factoid: Elevance Health $ANTM accounts for more than half of its in-house CarelonRx #PBM business drugch.nl/3sKzr3E Note that CVS Health $CVS provides claims processing and #prescription fulfillment services for IngenioRx

Intriguing via The Wall Street Journal : CVS Pharmacy $CVS Walgreens $WBA Look for Big Data Reward From #Covid19 Vaccinations drugch.nl/30ikklU Per article: "Chains plan to use information they collect on vaccine recipients to promote stores, tailor marketing"

Covid amplified inequality in 2020—by race as well as income, gender, occupation, and nationality trib.al/L1Y1CQk via Businessweek

"The controller in Lehigh County, Pa., estimated the county could have saved $1.4 million in 2019 if local officials were aware of the extent of rebates that were pocketed by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, which hired Express Scripts to provide..." legalreader.com/ohio-ag-files-…

Roy Exum: Cigna: No White Men - Chattanoogan.com chattanoogan.com/2021/3/25/4254…

What a jerk! All stale pcma talking points. What did PBMs promise Clay county Republicans or their candidates? Wasn’t that termed out leg from there a #benefitsbroker? Hum....

Study findings do not support the use of ivermectin for treatment of mild #COVID19, although larger trials may be needed to understand effects on other clinically relevant outcomes ja.ma/2PS0HQ8

“Doctors are like soldiers,” Dr. Manisha Jadhav would say. “They can’t be unavailable.” Dr. Jadhav, 51, died of the coronavirus. nyti.ms/3ueZTDF

Wondered WTF was wrong in Floriduh......... and now we know. So what now?

Lawmakers spiked pharmacy bills after DeSantis officials moved to debunk claims pushed by advocacy group | The Capitolist thecapitolist.com/lawmakers-spik…

Wth?