Anyone who has a regular medication regimen is usually quick to lament how costly it is. Well, you know, drugs are expensive, especially in America! But, what is the industry structure that determines and manages the price? The answer is found in a middleman enterprise known as the PBM, an acronym for Pharmacy Benefit Management. This acronym can also double as an oxymoron for patients who need medications because they are not benefiting from this interference in the system. Profit By Middlemen might be a more honest label.
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Last Updated: November 5, 2024 by David Kingsley, PhD
Nursing Home Alert: Reliant Care Management, LLC
By:Dave Kingsley The Center for Health Information & Policy (CHIP), our nonprofit research arm, has issued a nursing home alert that we believe will be of utmost interest to our readers. CHIP has developed a nursing home data analytics system by organizing… Read More
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Posted: July 23, 2024 by David Kingsley, PhD
The Choice between a Humane Health Care System or an Industrialized Medical System for the Benefit of Shareholders & Executives: What would the People Choose?
By: David Kingsley Elites sneer at the idea that people in general are intelligent enough to make good decisions in democratic elections. This is a disgusting and ill-informed attitude mostly aimed at the middle- and lower-income classes. But… Read More
Will our government public health officials warn us about the next pandemic?
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Last Updated: July 30, 2024 by David Kingsley, PhD
Let’s take a walk down memory lane…. The U.S. health care system is complex and dynamic. It been declining into catastrophic failure mode for at least the past decade. We struggled to manage and survive a systemic collapse of… Read More
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Last Updated: July 30, 2024 by David Kingsley, PhD
A Discussion of Morals and Values in Institutional Care for the Elderly: How we Justify the Unjustifiable: Part I
By: Dave Kingsley Corporate Neglect and Abuse of Nursing Home Patients: A Low Risk-High Reward Practice Why do nursing home corporations provide suboptimal and neglectful care while earning robust profits?[i] Because they can. Although the “law” is… Read More
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Last Updated: May 5, 2024 by Joe Sopcich
Her teeth were black, she was dying of thirst…and paying $400 per day to live there…
By: Joe Sopcich This story should shock you, and it is worrisome if it doesn’t! The details in this date log record the experience of a Kansas resident who was faced with the task of finding safe placement… Read More
The Heritage Foundation “Project 2025” is Taking Right Wing Extremism to a New Level
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Last Updated: July 30, 2024 by David Kingsley, PhD
Dave Kingsley Make no Mistake about It, Project 2025 is Powerful, it is Well-Funded, and it is Religiously Extremist, Misogynistic, and White Supremacist. Last August, this headline appeared in the Washington Times: “Recruiting is underway for Trump-like ‘wrecking ball’… Read More
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Last Updated: April 5, 2024 by Kent Comfort
Russia & the United States: Two Different Countries, Two Different Styles of Kleptocracy
By: David Kingsley Stealing from Taxpayers is Kleptocratic Behavior in Any Government After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia began to transition from totalitarian communism to an oligarchy of politically connected apparatchiks and mobsters from the Soviet… Read More
PBMs, The Invisible $500 Billion Per Year Industry
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Last Updated: July 30, 2024 by Kent Comfort
Anyone who has a regular medication regimen is usually quick to lament how costly it is. Well, you know, drugs are expensive, especially in America! But, what is the industry structure that determines and manages the price? The answer is found in a middleman enterprise known as the PBM, an acronym for Pharmacy Benefit Management. This acronym can also double as an oxymoron for patients who need medications because they are not benefiting from this interference in the system. Profit By Middlemen might be a more honest label.
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Posted: March 18, 2024 by David Kingsley, PhD
How the Health Insurance Industry is Using Disinformation to Take Over and Defraud Medicare
By: Dave Kingsley Corporate Greed in the Post-Truth Age Most Americans have never heard of the Better Medicare Alliance[1] – a Washington, D.C. think tank and front group for big health insurers such as UnitedHealth, Aetna, and… Read More
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Posted: March 12, 2024 by David Kingsley, PhD
WHY DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TOLERATE A POOR PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM ALONG WITH BAD HEALTHCARE THAT COSTS SO MUCH?
By: Dave Kingsley Unchecked Bigness is One Factor Threatening our Democracy & Our Health Big corporations and big unions can be and indeed are in many cases bad for our health. For instance, UnitedHealth, Centene, Cigna, CVS, and… Read More