Posted on 08/08/2017 12:55:41 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
IIRC, Obama was asked at a Townhall in 2008, whether a woman's 98 year old mother would be allowed to have a pacemaker inserted, after his health care plan was implemented. The woman said her mother still had a joi d'vivre and did not want to die. Didn't Obama reply 'well, maybe sometimes you should just take a pain pill'?
Of course they are. The air is much thinner in the higher altitudes (which Florida does not have) and consequently solid objects weigh much much less.
They most definitely are not the same drug! Get your facts straight.
The CMS ORDERED that all doctors, hospitals and medical providers who receive Medicare, Medicaid or any federal government money MUST treat PAIN as a PRIMARY factor and not just reduce it, but eliminate it.
This CMS mandate was an escalation of a previous mandate that providers must CONSIDER pain. Under Trump, the CMS requirement has been pretty much rolled to CONSIDER. But in true bureaucratic manner, it has been rolled back in very confusing language where the government does not admit they made a mistake.
CMS mandating Opioids is just the tip of the ice berg. CMS imposes many mandates on doctors, and patients, and hospitals, and pharmacists, and insurance companies, and IT companies that develop software for them.
The doctor is right there, in front of the patient. The CMS is not. But in the eyes of the CMS, there must be equality of treatment. Doctor’s inherently discriminate based on their past experience and education. It is the job of CMS to remove the discriminating behavior of the provider and bring equality of healthcare to everyone.
...we can't even put up with a little headache or back ache ( and many painful conditions especially neck and back improve on their own with PT and OTC meds.)
..we are impatient, whiny, wimpy.
and so many of us go to the doctor EXPECTING a prescription...
..you know this is true...
and yes, the docs and hospitals were FORCED to treat pain very very aggressively and were forced to medicate no matter if the person was sitting there laughing and eating, if he said he had pain, you better quick give him his dilaudid....
the docs are wising up a bit now...not quite so quick to prescribe at least in the hospital setting, but they still allow whiny patients to dictate what meds the need...most of these types are the younger sloths that we have so many of now .
“After our attempts to destroy forty percent of Afghanistan’s economy by eradicating their opiate production, we find ourselves swimming in opioids. Part of the problem might be with those who think suffering from pain is noble, so long as someone else has to do it. There’d be no black market if doctors prescribed whatever is necessary without being scolded for doing so.”
Great post. I’m so sick of the handwringing over this “opioid crisis”.
The drug war fascists need to get a life & allow suffering patients to get their meds. The government is making a crisis where there is none.
As it is, it’s almost impossible to get a doctor to prescribe pain medication because of the doctor’s fear of the government. Patients are forced to pay $15 to $20 a pill on the black market just for some relief.
A year ago, I sprained my neck pretty badly. I had to wear a neck collar and attend physical therapy for several weeks. When I was in the ER, the ER doc refused to give me anything stronger than an naproxen. It’s not as if I was wanting a lifetime supply of pain meds, just enough to get me through the first few days.
Ridiculous.
a junkie is a junkie.
It does not matter if he takes pills, snorts it or shoots it, the addict is a junkie.
Doctors were given out OxyContin like it was candy.
Well, maybe sometimes BHO should have submitted a urine sample...
But in particular what you are hooked on and your habits as a addict do matter.
Do you include alcoholics in your statement?
Single-payer Medicaid/Medicare pay structure highly encouraged giving pills instead of treating the problem.
Increased illegal supply occurred too (Mexico, Afghanistan).
Opioids are much more dangerous than other drugs.
Crazy dangerous.
I don’t see a direct connection between their higher use in a single-payer health plan and the current push for one. Might be there though.
Anyway the media always wants a new headline and politicians always want to spend money.
I saw an article a couple months back that showed this isn’t everywhere in the US. It is mostly limited to states that chose Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. Which pays for cheap pain pills, but doesn’t pay enough to attract doctors good enough to cure the pain. Without middle class Medicaid the middle class isn’t getting hooked on opioids or government. Liberalism kills
Yes it's that simple. This is a generational problem.
“Do you include alcoholics in your statement?”
Whether it is booze, pills, crack, crank or heroin, the end is all too often, death.
The commonality is that their weakness for their drug is all the same.
“Part of the problem might be with those who think suffering from pain is noble, so long as someone else has to do it”
Sounds like an easy line to pull out of thin air.
Opium coming from Afghanistan is one of the products of progressivist influence on policy in recent years. It has made America worse.
And we all know why Trump won the election.
Anyone who commits felonies belongs in prison.
Vast societal problems like the opioid crisis are what we get when big money is allowed to be on the receiving end of any progressivist scheme.
Opioid abuse is a BEHAVIOR. Addicts fake pain to get the scrip. People in real pain are given pills instead of treatment for the cause.
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