Posted on 05/11/2025 3:32:39 PM PDT by janetjanet998
I was checking that pesky constitution thingie and I can’t find where the power to regulate drugs and drug prices was specifically granted to the fed...
This did not mean that the cost would be lower for drugs in the various tiers but that the cost would be spaced out over the coverage year more evenly rather than front loading the largest part of our deductible cost in 1st script renewal of the year.
I didn't have the slightest feeling that the DONUT HOLE had been eliminated when my 1st 90 day supply of XRELTO (TIER 5) was picked up from the pharmacy for $794.00 instead of $904.00 in 2024.
I also noted that as we entered the last 3 or 4 months of 2024 my Cardiologist and Primary Physicians were no longer receiving "detailer" sales calls from Bayer or J&J Pharmacy REPS who would restock the free samples cabinet with generous supplies of XRELTO in all dosages which helped all of their patients to reduce the annual cost substantially.
Thank you once again President Trump from my entire A-FIB HEART.
A little off topic, but I was in AFIB for two solid years. My cardiologist wanted me to drink at least a half gallon of fluids every day. I got tire of water and started drinking 64 ounces of low-sodium V8 juice instead. After a couple of weeks my Cardio Mobile device started saying I was "unclassified" instead of "possible atrial fibrillation." After a few more days I went into "normal sinus rythm" for the past 260 days.
Turns out low-sodium V8 is loaded with potassium. My bet is my AFIB was caused by low potassium. I like my cardiologist, but these days MDs are handcuffed by the bureaucratic "protocols." The last thing the bureaucrats want to do is cure anybody of anything. They want to perform never-ending "treatment" so they can milk you for drug purchases forever.
Potassium is cheap as dirt. There is no profit in "treating" AFIB with it.
PS - I am still drinking about a gallon of low-sodium V* a week to make sure I stay out of AFIB.
AND, shyster lawyers.
They are one of the main causes of high priced medical care.
Good luck on reducing prices by 30%-80% if we make it in the USA.
Interesting. Stay well.
I spent two days in the. hospital a couple of years ago with “heart failure”, just a touch of afib that went away. I think because I wasn’t exercising a much as I did before covid lockdowns. Hard to build back up to that 14-minute daily mile on the treadmill.
I’m very small, don’t want to drink 64 ounces a day of anything, I’d never leave the loo. WebMD.com is a good source of info, They mention bananas (I hate them), avocados, mushrooms, salmon (has to be Alaskan, which is wild caught ,never farmed)) and several more foods that contain potassium. Also, you can buy potassium pills on AMZ and elsewhere, but always better to get them from foods.
And BTW, my MD is from Nigeria where med schools are not funded by pharmaceutical companies. Best doc ever, more interested in keeping me healthy that curing me. He’s sure I’ll live to be 100.
Thos will be fun watching the democrats spin this as terrible and an unconstitutional interference with the free market after years of bashing “big pharma”
I saw a similar post of yours back in December.
As a result, I have tried the “V8 protocol”, with similar results.
Something that has never made any sense to me is why readily available potassium supplements only give you 2% of the government-approved MDR. 50 pills (loaded with fillers) a day for 100%? That’s crazy.
Also, on the general topic of Afib, there’s an interesting video on YouTube by a cardiologist in England discussing an alternate view of Afib causes and treatments, and why conventional wisdom doesn’t always apply:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivof8UUKW3M
My SODIUM is LOW my POTASIUM is in MORMAL RANGE. 6 months ago my blood pressure med was switched from Lisinopril to Losartan and then monitored with 2 bi-weekly blood test cycles to be sure no upward spike into a SUPER HIGH POTASSIUM LEVEL occurred. No adverse effects were detected so I am now on Losartan.
I will definitely add V8, which I always found tasty, to my daily fluid intake. Thank again.
Absent the revenue from retail sales, “drug stores” could not exist.
The large Drug Store chains are retail competitors in a market where they don’t really stand a chance. With Walmart and Target and the food stores selling prescription drugs, the actual drug stores are forced to compete where they are at a strong disadvantage.
And perhaps even worse, the online drug stores that are actually components of the health insurance companies offer products and service the chain drug stores can absolutely not compete with
Just offhand I would say widely varying prices for the same product just might relate to greed somewhere along the line.
He does, however, have the right to direct Medicare and Medicaid to demand lower prices, and that's what this EO is about.
Make sure it is low sodium.
Thanks again and I will make sure it says low sodium on the V-8 label.
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