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Millions skipping doses, not filling prescriptions to save money, study finds
Channel 3000 News/Atlanta Journal ^ | june 7, 2023 | Hunter Boyce

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at channel3000.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: brandon; economy; inflation; medications; prescriptions
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To: Codeflier

“The next step will be prescribing medicine based on a genetic analysis”

I have good news. You’re not totally off base. The next step which will be available in the near future is med beds. Big Pharma will pretty much be gone.


21 posted on 06/07/2023 7:41:39 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Remember. They want you dead.


22 posted on 06/07/2023 7:48:35 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

It would take millions of those beds to meet the demand.

Will that many be made?


23 posted on 06/07/2023 7:48:46 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Big Pharma’s official position (parroted by mass media) is that med beds do not exist and cannot exist.

That means that Big Pharma is going to fight that new technology tooth and nail—using propaganda, bribing politicians, whatever it takes.


24 posted on 06/07/2023 7:53:52 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: laplata

“It would take millions of those beds to meet the demand.”

I think they said about automobiles once....

Capitalism will solve the problem—if allowed to do so.

The Big Pharma cartel is going to war against it.


25 posted on 06/07/2023 7:55:56 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: laplata

Yes I’ve heard 187,000 of them have already been manufactured by the military. The technology has been available for years. Its based on Nicholas Tesla’s research with atomic/harmonic frequencies. Now with quantum computers and low level AI they have built the med beds that will pretty much cure anything except psychosis. I was listening to a former Navy SEAL tell about how he died in a fire fight and was brought back in a med bed.

This stuff has been suppressed for years by the satanic enterprise we all refer to as the deep state cabal and it will not be introduced to the public until this current effort to dismantle the deep state is finished.

So to answer your original question its not going to be a problem to mass produce med beds. The average person with say Parkinson’s will only require about a half hour in a med bed to be cured.


26 posted on 06/07/2023 8:01:31 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Thanks for the promising reply. It sounds very good.

Yes, they had whole teams who were dedicated to steeling everything they could from Tesla.


27 posted on 06/07/2023 8:12:35 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: cgbg

Good points and I agree. thanks.


28 posted on 06/07/2023 8:13:13 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

I look forward to getting rid of my asthma and the compressed disc in my neck. 😉


29 posted on 06/07/2023 8:15:24 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: DoodleBob

Are all the medications really needed? Or just needed by the doctor and the hospital to have the insurance / gov’t / you pay their bills?

I went to a doctor about 13+ years ago. Feeling run down and was told I had high triglycerides and he said I had diabetes.

My solution was to stop drinking a 6 pack of coca cola nearly everyday. I changed what I eat and I cook most of my food and pretty much stopped going to fast food places for lunch.

He sent me a letter after I did not return and stated I had diabetes! and used a exclamation mark and that I needed treatment.

I think I heard the quacking noise when I was there...


30 posted on 06/07/2023 8:55:17 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: cyclotic

I ordered Ivermectin from India. Cost including shipping was $55 for 100 12mg tablets and no prescription required.

Google IndiaMart if interested.


31 posted on 06/07/2023 9:05:10 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: cyclotic

I get mine at Tractor Supply Co.


32 posted on 06/07/2023 9:06:45 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: cyclotic

Are you talking about the Boroline? It’s available on Amazon. I buy it in 6-10 packs and share it with family and friends - who then become converts. It’s also cheaper than buying a single tube, but you might want to do that first, just to see if it helps.

I first got it from an Indian friend; she says a tube is like 30 cents in India, LOL! But the stuff works for me.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Boroline&ref=nb_sb_noss


33 posted on 06/07/2023 9:27:16 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: John Milner

Sounds like a good plan to me!


34 posted on 06/07/2023 9:59:30 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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