Posted on 06/07/2023 5:29:32 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shed some new light on the health habits of Americans. According to the report, 8.2% of adults between the ages of 18 and 64 taking prescription medications reported not taking their drugs as prescribed in order to cut costs — adding up to 9.2 million affected Americans.
In 2021, out-of-pocket expenses on retail drugs rose to $63 billion — a major factor in many U.S. residents’ decision to stop taking their medications. Roughly 60% of U.S. adults 18 years old or older reported taking at least one prescription medication that year. A total 36% of people reported taking three or more medications.
“High costs may limit individuals’ access to medications and lead to people not taking medication as prescribed; this may result in more serious illness and require additional treatment,” the CDC reported.
Women were found to be more likely to not follow their prescriptions than men. Those with disabilities were found to be three times more likely to not take their medications as prescribed than those without disabilities. Adults in fair or poor health were almost three times more likely to do so than those in excellent, very good or good health.
Uninsured adults, however, were the most likely to not take their medications as prescribed due to costs.
While out-of-pocket retail drug spending rose by 4.8% in 2021, the CDC study largely laid the cause of the health trend at the feet of a rising number of total available retail prescriptions — not at rising prices.
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Helluvajob you’re doing there, Brandon! *SPIT*
*PING*
I have a new $201 prescription to consider picking up today. And that is with insurance.
What does HE care, as long as they shoot him up with whatever he’s on.
And WE are paying for his health care, as well.
Ouch! I know that hurts…
May I offer an alternative assessment of the data?
The past three years gutted the medical industrial complex of any remaining credibility. They went all-in in Feb-March 2020 within their remaining Authority Bias to Finish the Job.
Fast forward to 2023. Sure, inflation will cause consumers to make choices about what to buy and not buy. But a bigly segment of America, seeing the grotesque medicinal compound that was forced on people by a retinue of lab-coated fiends who killed grandma, have said NO to meds.
There is a new generation of Americans who will use doctors sparingly, resort to alternative therapies and better foods and nutrition, and are cutting their Big Pharma tethers.
/rant
Sounds like an ad for the pharmaceutical companies, of which the CDC is a marketing arm. My father was taking 22 prescription drugs at the time of his death. When he went on hospice I called his doctor, the one who prescribed all those 22 drugs, and asked him if we could get him off some of them and was told, “Absolutely not!”
Joe has his own personal hyperbaric oxygen chamber in his basement in Delaware.
The pharm industry makes a lot of money by having doctors convince people they need the drug company’s meds.
How much Type 2 diabetes could be dealt with by diet, exercise, and losing weight?
But no, there’s no money in that so it’s easier to put diabetics on a high carb diet, which will keep them fat and diabetic and on meds, than to deal with the root cause of it.
It's a good gig, when you can get it, and are willing to sell your soul to the devil.
https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
The Open Payments Search Tool is used to search payments made by drug and medical device companies to physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses and teaching hospitals.
Remember the dims loved saying about the republicans, people must choose between prescriptions and groceries.
Remember the dims loved saying about the republicans, people must choose between prescriptions and groceries.
I have a minor skin condition that is getting to be a bit more problematic. When I took Ivermectin for Covid it cleared up for months.
I’ve gotten a doctor to prescribe it but my stupid insurance company won’t cover it. The cash price is several hundred dollars. I’m working with another doctor to try to get it now but have to jump through a bunch of hoops.
I just realized that I have a friend who is from India. Maybe he can get me some.
It’s mind boggling how ridiculously unhealthy the majority of the population is.
Firmly believe that if you cant walk all day, run a mile, live without multiple medications, and have to eat several tiems a day to keep your blood sugar from crashing that you are highly unlikely to survive the next ten years no matter how well prepared you think you are.
I have one prescription that is ridiculously expensive. And they are very precise in when you can get the next refill. I take one pill twice a day (morning and evening).
I’ve decided to cut one in half and twice a week, spaced well apart, I take a full one in the morning and a half at night. Thus gaining one pill per week in my inventory, worth 1/2 day’s dose.
I’m doing it mostly to build a bit of a reserve supply, but the fact that I’m saving a bit of cash in the long run doesn’t hurt either.
Font want to even mention the price ( with insurance) my brother pays for his anti rejection meds he has to take for the rest of his life.
I picked up a generic prescription (for gout) last week. The 3-month supply cost me $0 with my Medicare Advantage drug coverage. The accompanying printout showed that I would have had to pay $74.27 out-of-pocket without insurance.
The 5 generics I take would cost nearly $300 per quarter out-of-pocket.
I am thinking along similar lines. I have also noticed that the medical establishment is starting to prescribe many things without even having symptoms or discomfort.
“Here are your blood test results...now take this medicine...here is a prescription” kind of stuff.
The next step will be prescribing medicines based on a genetic analysis, with absolutely no manifestations of issues, but simply based on your genes.
Well my crappy healthcare insurance makes me go in for a visit to the doctor before they will refill my scripts.
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