https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/prescriptionsforabrokensystem/106164?xid=nl_secondopinion_2023-09-03&eun=g2121004d0r High Drug prices are an extreme burden on patients, many skip meds, or never take them due to excessive prices, leading to poor health outcomes. Drug prices have little correlation to cost ofContinue reading
Why high drug prices damage health
A growing number of older adults say they can’t afford their prescription medications, a study published Thursday in JAMA Network Open found. About 1 in 5 adults ages 65 and up either skipped, delayed, took less medicationContinue reading
Recent Scope of practice wins by AMA
We have a number of scope of practice wins this past year, but this will be a recurrent and perennial “whack a mole situation indefinitely into the future I am afraid. Our Litigation center andContinue reading
Insulin unaffordability deemed a human rights abuse
Human rights Watch has declared that the sky high cost of insulin is a human rights abuse. I agree. The cost to manufacture a vial of insulin which has been available for 99 years nowContinue reading
Covid deaths top 970,000
We have passed 960,000 deaths for the past 2 years now, an unconscionable loss of life, and a failure of the US health care system. Public health needs to be rebuilt and should never beContinue reading
Women’s reproductive rights under assault
A womens reproductive rights are under assault, and may very well erode further if the supreme court reverses Roe V Wade The AMA has been vigorous in defending the right of a women and herContinue reading
Private practice declines, 70% of all physicians now employed
Physician practices are under increasing strain, from low insurance reimbursements, high operating costs, reduced visits from Covid, competition from large corporations, so that in the past few years alone private practices have declined fromContinue reading
Supreme court preserves the Accountable care act (again)
The US supreme court today rejected for a third time attempts to remove the accountable care act, 7-2 decision. In no other country on earth would taking away health care be considered a viable politicalContinue reading
Primary care practices under severe financial strains with COVID
Primary care physicians are in danger of closing offices due to COVID and limits on practice. this will soon be a public health crisis as many physician practices can not survive with current payment models.Continue reading
Many Physician office are closing practices
The coronavirus is wrecking havoc on our health care system, exposing many flaws in health care delivery, from public health deficiencies, to supply problems, to financial strains of primary care, with as of now 40,000Continue reading