MANY TIMES the guilty party uses a method of distraction to keep the light off of their own negative actions so they are not the center of attention and the wrong actions are not revealed/discovered. Instead, the true cause of a conflict is avoided. The U.S. spends nearly $334 billion a year on prescription drugs? That's what I've heard.
Prescription drug price negotiations often happen behind closed doors, leaving patients and physicians out of the negotiating room despite the impact drug pricing has on the health and treatments of patients. To improve prescription drug price transparency, the TruthinRx campaign is focusing on three major market players who significantly impact drug prices:
Pharmaceutical companies. Pharmaceutical companies make and sell drugs, but don’t explain pricing or why costs can greatly exceed research-and-development (R&D) expenses. Some even buy existing drugs, spend nothing on R&D, and still raise prices.
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Working on behalf of health insurance companies or employers, PBMs negotiate upfront discounts on the prices of prescription drugs with pharmaceutical companies, as well as rebates, which reward favorable coverage of a particular drug (and the resulting increase in utilization by a health plan’s patients). These prescription drug agreements are kept secret, so it is unknown if savings ever reach the patients.
Health insurance companies. Health insurance companies approve treatments, set co-pays, and price out with PBMs how much patients pay for drugs. Often, they decide coverage options based on what maximizes company profits.
If the pharmaceutical companies that are holding hands with the medical field convince the general public that you are in poor health because you do not exercise enough, then big PHARMA will be overlooked as the root of the problem. THE PROBLEM is redirected back to the one suffering. It couldn't possibly be medicines are causing high cholesterol, diabetes, skin cancer, etc. It must be that you are not exercising enough. The one struggling with these ailments is at fault, not BIG PHARMA? BUT the truth of the matter can be that the medication they make/prescribe is engineered to cause additional health issues/problems.
The side effects can be awful. Are the meds we take engineered to deliberately cause additional health issues? Say what you want, but my personal opinion, I think medicines are engineered to cause other health issues. In the spirit of sophisticated scientist creating medicines that know just how to create meds that will cause additional health issues so more medicines are prescribed, you are now hooked. You become a victim. A cash cow to them. A sure bet that you will be a repeat customer.
The victim is made out to be THE problem which can be helped with MORE exercise instead of stopping the medicines that have side effects such as raising blood glucose, elevating cholesterol and encouraging skin cancer amongst other things. The patient needs MORE exercise instead of the patient's cause of illness is due to the meds taken. Go figure?
After my Husband's last physical he was told he needed to exercise more because his A1c continues to be too high and in order to lower it he should exercise more. In the last 6 months, I don't know how much more exercise he could do after all the physical work he is doing with remodeling the COTTAGE, packing, carrying heavy boxes, moving furniture, etc. This excuse of not exercising enough does not fly. He takes a couple of meds that are known to elevate blood glucose and cholesterol. He is diabetic and takes medicines for this AND stays extremely physically active. Stress can play a part in ill health. We shall work at living a less stressful LIFE, pray, play, eat organic food with balanced meals and little carbohydrates and sugar. Take supplements like apple cider vinegar, cinnamon, Co-Q 10, selenium, calcium, vitamins C and D3 with K2. B vitamins as well. Drink green teas, etc.
I'm not saying one should not exercise. Exercise within reason is a very healthy thing to do. I'm saying that we are being led to believe that the lack of exercise is the reason there are health issues period and drugs with side effects are being protected to make those in the pharmaceutical world a great deal of money. I'm saying the push to protect the pharmaceutical companies medicines overrides the health of the patient.
If the meds you are taking are not working well, then higher priced meds can be prescribed. Hello... big money for the pharmaceutical company. Hello and good-bye. The medicine the doc wants to prescribe next is $650.oo a month and medicare will not pay for it. Sounds like a personal problem to me and not the doctor or pharmaceutical companies?
https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/how-are-prescription-drug-prices-determined
I have a place on my lower eye lid that was biopsied and I was told it is precancerous so I had it treated by a dermatologist. The place is still there so I'll have to have it frozen again in 6 months. A diuretic that I take has been linked to skin cancer AND high blood glucose. I am now diabetic and have high blood glucose with high cholesterol and have a precancerous place on my eyelid. Next appointment with my doc, I will be asking if there is a different diuretic to used besides HYDROCHLORTHIAZIDE.
A while back, I came to the conclusion that medical advice to women usually is:
1) lose weight
2) exercise
3) drink more water
4) take an antidepressant
Now days, some more things have been added to the list.
Eat a healthy diet.
Get your sleep.
Less stress.
Don't smoke.
Don't drink alcohol.
Don't use recreational drugs.
Practice safe sex.
Nothing on here about being a person of high character and integrity. hum.
Eating a balanced and healthy diet may find its place on the list from your doc.
I ask, what a healthy diet is? Harvard will help me with this and skip the quality of the food and water.
I'm aiming for a healthier lifestyle for myself and my husband. It's an overhaul. A huge adjustment. Much of what we were doing I deemed as healthy then when the health problems arrived, I was scratching my head trying to figure out where we went wrong. Could things be corrected before it is too late?
Along the pathway of LIFE, we stopped eating as much as we could High-fructose corn syrup.
Not drinking milk with hormones.
Avoiding fluorides meaning using baking soda to brush teeth with and/or toothpaste without fluorides. Drinking spring water.
Using natural deodorant or none.
Not cooking with non-stick cookware.
Eating grain-fed beef.
Eating as much organic fruits and vegetables.
Avoiding NATURAL FLAVORINGS.
Using garlic that has not been bleached or the roots cut off.
Using natural supplements that are not synthetic.
Using extra-virgin olive oil that comes from source not a multitude of countries that tend to blend oils that are not even olive oil.
Cooking with avocado oil and using extra-virgin olive oil.
Cut way back on sugar.
Avoiding highly processed foods.
Eating soy-free eggs.
Not eating as much fried food.
Cut back on the carbohydrates.
Working at using healthy cotton.
Researching cleaning products.
Avoiding radiation.
The list is growing. Going a different route is a new thing from what we have been doing for so many years. It's like trying to walk backwards everywhere we go. It can be done, but there are opticals. Know what I mean, Vern?
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