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West Virginia replaces Tennessee as No. 1 in prescription drug use (17.4 per person)
Charleston Daily Press ^ | 2/06/08

Posted on 02/06/2008 4:34:21 PM PST by Libloather

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To: Libloather
I stopped believing anything Blue Cross the B.S. says when they helped Hillary and Al put Tenncare into existence to start with. They were the driving force behind it. They had a less than ethical manner of forcing doctors to signing onto the program and ran full page adds trying to scare the crap out of people that our Medicaid System in Tennessee was broke. It wasn’t broke except when it was deliberately made to be so by corrupt politicians.
41 posted on 02/06/2008 5:49:47 PM PST by cva66snipe (Proud Partisan Constitution Supporting Conservative to which I make no apologies for nor back down)
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To: cva66snipe

It wasn’t them, it was Governor McWherter who pushed the monstrosity into being.


42 posted on 02/06/2008 5:54:29 PM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: secret garden

It was all of them actually. Hillary’s idea but it had to have HCFA approval {waivers} to become a reality. I watched the whole train wreck happen. Medicaid stopped paying providers claims to start with and began creating a false crisis. BTW some of Ned Rays people did end up as Hey Moe Tenncare managers. Taxquist support of it was a disgrace to the GOP.


43 posted on 02/06/2008 6:01:13 PM PST by cva66snipe (Proud Partisan Constitution Supporting Conservative to which I make no apologies for nor back down)
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To: WVNight

For the love of God! It’s a joke!

Bryd is knows for funding and naming everything in WV after himself.

Sheesh


44 posted on 02/06/2008 6:18:02 PM PST by PurpleMan
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To: Libloather

The one area of Medicaid fraud that should be looked into is that of prescription narcs.

Many Medicaid patients have found it profitable to feign pain to get narcotic prescriptions and then resell them. I’ve seen several with rx’s for 240 Percocet per month, and even one person getting 900 Methadone per month!


45 posted on 02/06/2008 6:38:12 PM PST by Born Conservative (Chronic Positivity - http://jsher.livejournal.com/)
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To: Morgana

I was born and raised in WV....Can I use that license plate?


46 posted on 02/06/2008 6:39:07 PM PST by quikdrw (Life is tough....it's even tougher if you are stupid.)
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To: Libloather

"Almost heaven, West Virginia..."


47 posted on 02/06/2008 6:41:32 PM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: Libloather

"Country dopes, take me home..."


48 posted on 02/06/2008 6:43:59 PM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: Libloather

That explains voting habits...


49 posted on 02/06/2008 6:48:11 PM PST by Doohickey (McCain 2008: A President with Tourette's will make press conferences interesting...)
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To: Morgana

I have 3 prescriptions refilled each month - all related to a heart attack last year. Does that mean I’m getting 36 prescriptions a years? How do they count this? I’m in Tennessee. Am I getting more than the average number of prescriptions or do I need to take more drugs to reach the average?


50 posted on 02/06/2008 7:05:59 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Emmett McCarthy

BCBS is fixing to hit the lawmakers and governor of Tennessee for a raise on their Hey Moe fees. BCBS usually starts the propaganda a month or two in advance.


51 posted on 02/06/2008 7:11:42 PM PST by cva66snipe (Proud Partisan Constitution Supporting Conservative to which I make no apologies for nor back down)
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To: cva66snipe

Do they throw in the prescriptions for us suckers who just pay for them to boost the averages?


52 posted on 02/06/2008 7:17:38 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Emmett McCarthy

Who knows. I’d take anything Blue Cross says with a grain of salt though.


53 posted on 02/06/2008 7:31:35 PM PST by cva66snipe (Proud Partisan Constitution Supporting Conservative to which I make no apologies for nor back down)
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To: Born Conservative
"Many Medicaid patients have found it profitable to feign pain to get narcotic prescriptions and then resell them."

Like selling food stamps for $ and going to a food pantry for nutrition. There are scams all around.

I spent 2001-2004 on narcotics because of 2 bad disks. With stupid doctors that gave me hydro or darvocet. And one that gave me a an Rx for Valium for pain?! I finally got one that said I need Voltarin and Ultracet and Robaxin and epidurals to actually FIX THE PROBLEM? With non-narcotics. This is what Rush stumbled into with 3 bad disks years ago.

People in pain don't get high from opiates, but more are needed to kill pain over time. Rush and I got caught in time. What a waste of money on drugs.

There may be a time when opiates must work in the future without a tolerance for them. Stay away from them. And stupid doctors.

54 posted on 02/06/2008 8:08:50 PM PST by BobS
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To: Libloather

Are they counting refills?

I’d have trouble even NAMING seventeen different drugs.


55 posted on 02/06/2008 8:10:15 PM PST by Petronski (I didn't leave the GOP. The GOP left me.)
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To: cva66snipe

Probably good advice - except for a guy who’s had a heart attack. No salt, you know.


56 posted on 02/06/2008 8:15:48 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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"I’d have trouble even NAMING seventeen different drugs."

Keep it like that. I can name about 3 anti-biotics that are capped and can be used for the next flu. The one that makes you throw up with the violent shits was taken care of with penicillin (2) and ampicillin (1). And little sips of orange juice over 2 days. And peni every 6 hours. Keep them tightly capped. That was a very bad virus. The nolovirus. Stay down and warm.

57 posted on 02/06/2008 8:56:43 PM PST by BobS
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To: BobS

I’m confused.

Antibiotics are effective against bacteria, but not viruses. Unless they were concerned with opportunistic infections, I don’t know why norovirus would indicate antibiotics.


58 posted on 02/06/2008 8:59:15 PM PST by Petronski (I didn't leave the GOP. The GOP left me.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Romney would probably say no, but Huckabee probably thought they were acutely lucid and perceptive on Super Tuesday.


59 posted on 02/06/2008 9:06:06 PM PST by mathurine
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To: Libloather
Officials said the painkiller hydrocodone is the No. 1 drug by volume that TennCare funds.

Crack for crackers. That was my first guess when I saw the title. Oxycodone and hydrocodone.

60 posted on 02/06/2008 9:34:21 PM PST by the808bass
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