Notices by Carolyn Barber, MD (cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com)

“I asked the CVS Caremark CEO how much he’s charging for a $16 drug for multiple sclerosis.

Answer: $6,229.

Yeah, that‘s a 38,000% markup from this Fortune 10 PBM.”—r/t Rep Jake Auchincloss of Mass. #press #pharma

According to The Economist’s projections, the “cumulative global excess death toll now stands at 28.5 million, 4.1 times higher than the official #COVID death toll, which surpassed 7 million at the end of 2023.”

Additionally, >100 million Americans, or ~1/3 of the pop., are believed to have been infected in the past 3 mos.

”This could very well mean that upwards of 1-2 billion more infections have transpired during the

“United Healthcare pressured its medical staff to cut off payments for seriously ill patients in lockstep with a computer algorithm’s calculations, denying rehab care for older & disabled Americans as profits soared.”

Great investigative work @caseymross & @bobjherman https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/14/unitedhealth-algorithm-medicare-advantage-investigation/ #medicine #profit #healthcare

former compliance supervisor.

“If you shoot tiny pingpongs down airways to obstruct the lungs, you can imagine the potential consequences,” said Dr. Robert Lowe. #cpap #fraud #medicine
https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-kept-warnings-about-dangerous-cpaps-secret-profits-soared

To quiet the machines, Philips packed their CPAP devices with foam. The foam broke down over time sending potentially “toxic & carcinogenic” material into the throats and lungs of users. “Reports detailed nearly 2,000 cases of cancer, 600 liver & kidney illnesses & 17,000 respiratory ailments.”

Philips withheld > 3,700 complaints over 11 years from the FDA, while waging aggressive marketing campaigns to sell more machines. “There were people who knew and knew for a long said time,” said a. 1/2