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6. Our Byzantine Healthcare System

Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:24 AM

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You'd need a PHD just to try and understand it. It's so opaque. As my one colleague used to say; "names have been changed to protect the guilty".

I'm OK with a private based health care system BUT they system has to open and clear to the people using it. Prices should be clearly stated. There needs to be adequate competition. And there has to be some type of safe guard put in place that removes the bad players.

Our current system is far from adequate and its expensive. Don't expect help from politicians. They're heavily supported by the health care industry and they get access to a great health-care system.

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Exclusive: CVS explores options including potential break-up, sources say [View all] BumRushDaShow Oct 1 OP

Why are pharmacies having trouble? LisaM Oct 1 #1

There has been a lot of "consolidation" in this market over the decades BumRushDaShow Oct 1 #4

It's the PBMs thumper2547 Oct 1 #5

Our Byzantine Healthcare System modrepub Oct 1 #6

Lawsuits from the opioid crisis were a big factor with lots of publicity IronLionZion Oct 1 #9

I think this is ironic, slightlv Oct 1 #11

I take 2 medications mercuryblues Oct 1 #13

Have you looked into Cost Plus Drugs? FakeNoose Oct 1 #14

I have to get it through CVS mercuryblues Oct 1 #15

Of course it is - Americans are paying through the nose FakeNoose Oct 1 #16

So the guys that dispense medications own the guys that pay for medications bucolic_frolic Oct 1 #2

I have Cigna and they force us to go to CVS lanlady Oct 1 #3

Way back in the late '70s BumRushDaShow Oct 1 #7

How this is not a monopoly, I don't understand. slightlv Oct 1 #12

But for-profit healthcare is the best thing ever. eggplant Oct 1 #8

We really need a nationalized healthcare system............... turbinetree Oct 1 #10