KUDOs Ron Wyden 4 focusing bipartisan #drugshortages bill on ROOT CAUSE of decades-long travesty:#GPOs group purchasing cartels Vizient, Inc. Premier Inc. HealthTrust per InsideHealthPolicy. #RepealSafeHarbor to end "legalized" kickbacks, bribes,payola nebula.wsimg.com/a0b613f5964053….

For real root cause of drug shortage crisis & solution, click link to our statement to Senate Finance Committee re: its 12/5 hearing on drug shortages:linkedin.com/in/phillip-l-z…. Dr. Robert M. Califf @linakhanFTC Neera Tanden🌻 CathyMcMorrisRodgers Rep. Debbie Dingell @RepAnnaEshoo Antitrust Division

For detail on the real root cause of decades-long #drugshortages crisis, & solution, see PADS statement for the record to Senate Finance re: its 12/5 hearing linkedin.com/in/phillip-l-z… Secretary Xavier Becerra ASCO @ACEPNow ASHP ASPEN

MUST READ: Article in Capitol Forum of 1/17 on Senate Finance Committee scrutiny of key role of GPOs in causing #drugshortages---& possibility of antitrust enforcement. linkedin.com/posts/phillip-…. .

#drugshortages HELP IS ON THE WAY!linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

#drugshortages Group purchasing orgs trot out top shill, fmr FDA chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb, to rip FTC probe on GPO role in drug shortages : cnbc.com/video/2024/02/…. As sitting commish, he told AP of 7/12/18 a much different story. Read bout flip-flop here:thebignewsletter.com/p/buckraking-d…

BEST thing pt advocates can do NOW to stop #drugshortages is respond, w/documents, FACTS, #GPO HORROR stories to FTC RFI. Congress been kicking this can down road for 13+ yrs! @linakhanFTC 🩷 MEANS BUSINESS! ftc.gov/news-events/ne…. Dr. Robert M. Califf Secretary Xavier Becerra Antitrust Division

MUST READ: @linakhanFTC ❤️talk to AMA medpagetoday.com/washington-wat… on probe into predatory #GPO as cause of #drugshortages .Time 4 ASCO ASA® ASHP AAM to help end shortages by responding to FTC RFI!

#drugshortages stakeholders:The @linakhanFTC & HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra have extended comment period to 5/30 on joint probe into the role of hospital group purchasing organizations (GPOs) in causing the decades-long shortages of generic drugs: ftc.gov/news-events/ne… Dr. Robert M. Califf

Check out "The Broken Supply Chain: How Group Purchasing Organizations are Sabotaging Healthcare" in the March issue of Neonatology Today: neonatologytoday.net/newsletters/nt… #drugshortages @linakhanFTC Dr. Robert M. Califf Secretary Xavier Becerra President Donald J. Trump Antitrust Division

If U really care bout #drugshortages then comment in response to RFI by FTC & HHS which announced 2/14 probe into role of hospital group purchasing orgs #GPOs Vizient, Inc. Premier Inc. HealthTrust & big distributors in causing crisis.Deadline: 5/30.ftc.gov/news-events/ne….

Led by Minn Atty Gen Keith Ellison, 7 state AGs+DC AG lambast GPOs & "Big 3" distributors 4 causing #drugshortages:regulations.gov/comment/FTC-20…. Comments posted in response to FTC/HHS Request4info (RFI) on role of GPOs, distributors in causing scandal. Way to go AGs. Lock 'em up!

KUDOs to Sandoz for calling a spade a shovel in #drugshortages report pointing the finger at the culprits:monopolistic hospital group purchasing organizations (GPOs)::lnkd.in/em43Vy-4.@lina… Secretary Xavier Becerra Dr. Robert M. Califf The Brookings Institution Senate Finance Committee Antitrust Division Neera Tanden🌻

📷 Jehoshaphat Research Jehoshaphat Research OUR NEW SHORT: PINC We are short Premier Inc. $PINC, a $2bn business services stock in the health care sector (a Group Purchasing Organization, or GPO)

Congrats to Marty Makary MD, MPH on Senate confirmation as FDA commissioner! Read his 11/13/18 JAMA piece on how #GPOs caused #drugshortages & inflated hc costs. In 2019 book THE PRICE WE PAY, he called for repealing the unsafe GPO safe harbor to end shortages

Outraged that Energy and Commerce Committee still kicking #drugshortages can down road w/useless bills, hearings like 6/10.No excuses @BrettGuthrie Rep. Diana DeGette Rep. Frank Pallone.U attended hearing 9/23/11 when savvy Rep.Shimkus (R-IL) nailed the #GPO cartels w/ right question. Buddy Carter

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WATCH "Drug Shortages: The Movie!":lnkd.in/eyHJxkqC on how 3 giant hospital group purchasing (GPOs) cartels---Vizient, Inc. Premier Inc. HealthTrust caused chronic generic #drugshortages & inflated supply costs by est. $90-$100BB/yr--& how we can stop them! Marty Makary MD, MPH

Why #Drugshortages don't end? See Chuck Schumer berating Antitrust colleagues Herb Kohl(D-WI)&Mike DeWine(R-OH)4 holding last(3/15/06) of 4 hearings on GPO abuses.They drafted bipartisan bill to REPEAL unsafe AKS safe harbor,Schumer killed it for Greater New York Hospital Association $$$: lnkd.in/e_Hm4keU