American Thinker
•67% Informative
Optum PBM (pharmacy benefits management) reported a 25 percent increase in its revenue growth.
Authors: PBMs make their profits by limiting patients’ access to the cheapest drugs.
They say PBMs practice medicine without a license and restrict what drugs doctors can prescribe for their patients.
Authors say good financial news in healthcare is bad news for patients.
People die waiting in line for technically possible care that is not provided in time to save them. That is what third party profits and elevated stock prices have bought. Deane Waldman, M.D., MBA is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Pathology, and Decision Science; former Director of the Center for Healthcare Policy at Texas Public Policy Foundation; and author of the multi-award-winning book Curing the Cancer in U.S. Healthcare: StatesCare and Market-Based Medicine..
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