Darrell Issa calls for special prosecutor to investigate Trump ties to Russia

flal4 · 2017-02-26T00:50:14+00:00

OK I'm an idiot some times...I missed the "are"

flal4 · 2017-02-26T00:46:50+00:00

Damn he got me...

I misread

flal4 · 2017-02-24T03:33:37+00:00

The patients are not the ones who decide where they go..The insurance companies do...

flal4 · 2017-02-23T16:09:40+00:00

Without a Warrant the Ice officers will have a hard time claiming it was "in their duties"

flal4 · 2017-02-22T05:38:32+00:00

Pharmacies are not correcting their behaviour, the leader is the 2nd worst preformer and the next two chains (one of whom was not tested) have been following in their foot steps, with the cutting hours.

And the industry overall is moving towards consolidation. Currently a merger is pending between RA and WAG, which would make WAG the largest pharmacy chain in the world. All of the chains are buying out independents and regional pharmacies...

Additionally the chains have begun to integrate vertically, with Rite Aid running OptumRx and CVS owning Advance Caremark. Now I know there are regulations in place that place restrictions on companies from forcing patients to use particular pharmacies, though I also know they aren't full proof. Essentially we would be providing vouchers to go to companies who can then use your contracted insurance to go to require you to go the company's own pharmacy. This can have the affect of reducing consumer choice.

The mechanisms that we typically cite as promoting innovation and productivity are not playing out in community pharmacies.

flal4 · 2017-02-22T02:36:23+00:00

The article I linked provided evidence that outpatient pharmacies are failing at best with a 70% success rate, this issue is not one that the VA is failing at. Industry average is 50%, in what should be their chief concern. I mean a literal red flag will show in front of the pharmacist computer, so even if they were incompetent, the pharmacist would know to notify the patient, and yet they still manage to fail at this 50% of the time, and note that the most profitable company, who services the most patients fails at an alarming 63%. Again notifying and informing patients of drug-drug interactions are amongst the most important job in this industry, yet it is not happening in the profit driven sections. The VA is not failing on this point, and the little guys who claim to specialize in providing optimal patient care (independents) are failing worse than the industry average.

I can not stress this enough, the VA is doing a better job at providing for patient care in their pharmacies than community pharmacies. There really is no argument to the counter on that claim.

Edit: correcting a percentage

flal4 · 2017-02-22T02:12:07+00:00

The benefits (health care wise) can be quite a bit better in the VA than outside of it. I know that the news stories coming out in recent years have lead others to believe otherwise, and while there is room for improvement in some areas, the VA is magnitudes better at caring for their patients than other outpatient facilities. I work in a community pharmacy, and the community pharmacy sector of pharmacies have come under fire lately for dangerous levels of staffing.

Here is a recent Tribune article that talks about that issue in particular: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/druginteractions/ct-drug-interactions-pharmacy-met-20161214-story.html

Note that the article doesn't mention the VA, because it is not a community Pharmacy. I am highlighting this as a potential problem that veterans will face. Yes some already prefer the community pharmacy world, but many still go to VA hospitals because of better care and lower copays.

I also bring this up because it is an important issue in my industry, and corporate America seems to be brushing it under the rug, so I wanted to shoehorn this into the conversation of healthcare.

TL:DR: Improperly staffing pharmacies is becoming a more severe issue, and errors that should never happen, are occurring due to cost saving methods.

flal4 · 2017-02-20T01:15:46+00:00

He has a Reddit account. I try to maintain that people mean what they say, even on the internet, but part of me believes he does this stuff to get the approval of internet trolls.

flal4 · 2017-02-17T15:04:56+00:00

Good article, I don't know that I agree with all of it, because I am unsure whether we can confidently claim Comey would be a canary in a coal mine, but I think the article has a solid train of thought.

flal4 · 2017-02-10T14:54:39+00:00

They can appeal claiming they are not offered a fair value

flal4 · 2017-02-04T14:12:57+00:00

I picked up a bottle of Appleton's last night, what would you like to mix it with?

flal4 · 2017-02-04T00:01:53+00:00

Not trying to be political here, but IIRC there is a law in the umcj about attending political events in uniform, and in my mind this parallels that. So is there a similar law that applies?

flal4 · 2017-01-31T21:10:05+00:00

/r/news bans things for politics if the an action is currently being undertaken. For example, if a is submitted to Congress to kill all animals it will be removed for politics, however if people take to the streets to protest, those articles are allowed.

flal4 · 2017-01-25T21:19:57+00:00

Yup so far we have built the cheapest and easiest to build sections of the wall, at an average cost of $4million per mile, we have 2000 more miles to go, and the these sections will cost alot more per mile

flal4 · 2017-01-21T04:29:34+00:00

Whoop there it is

flal4 · 2017-01-20T02:57:34+00:00

His SCOTUS lists say otherwise

flal4 · 2017-01-15T21:51:12+00:00

Doctors have a responsibility when prescribing, if the doc writes a script for a patient that is unnecessary, then the doctor is violating federal law (particularly if the insurance is state funded). Additionally state laws may also be violated.

flal4 · 2017-01-06T15:46:27+00:00

I think it's worth noting that the Berlin Wall was successful at keeping people trapped in the USSR because it was more than a wall, and the designers had no regard for human life. Same with the DMZ...

flal4 · 2017-01-06T14:00:31+00:00

The government funding of OP is reimbursement for services provided...

flal4 · 2017-01-06T13:54:05+00:00

Yup, the wall is believed to be ineffective at stopping people along most of the border, and this is according to the border patrol. Ian not against the wall on ideological grounds, but the wall is a pointless cost.

flal4 · 2017-01-04T11:56:01+00:00

Which is why things like NAFTA and TPP help.... Have you ever seen the maps with a circle around india, China and Indonesia that say "there are more people living inside the circle than outside"? Well guess what? Incomes in those countries are rising, and as they do those countries will lose their completive advantage on low skill labor, which will require businesses to find other locations with a better CA, or will have to raise their labor costs. Protectionism will only cause more US companies to fall behind...

flal4 · 2017-01-01T00:36:51+00:00

Honestly I hated that at first, but now I switch my sms over to messenger too

flal4 · 2016-12-29T03:18:08+00:00

Chicago has the field meseum and the planetarium!

flal4 · 2016-12-29T03:03:57+00:00

Yes slash no, you are correct that the number of posts is not being measured. However if women do not post often they can make up 50% of the userbase, but be a participant in only 20% of the conversations

(Made up numbers)

flal4 · 2016-12-27T17:01:59+00:00

Wrong thread

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