Comments on: This Is Not The Time To Suck It Up http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/ Posts from an Insane Healthcare System Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:55:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Doc Gurley http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/comment-page-1/#comment-10200 Doc Gurley Sun, 31 May 2009 17:07:22 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/#comment-10200 Great point - thanks for your comment! Great point – thanks for your comment!

]]> By: BeckytheTechie http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/comment-page-1/#comment-10141 BeckytheTechie Sun, 31 May 2009 03:30:40 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/#comment-10141 On behalf of the people who have to hand out this kind of $#!^ with a smile, I'm sorry. Your pharmacists and their technicians are stuck too. We need that $2.35/Rx filling fee from your insurance company to offset the damage we take from offering 30/$4.00 and similar 'programs'. The jacked up price isn't going to those of us in the white/blue smocks; we still get $2.35/Rx to type out, print up, buy, stock and sell your medications, plus pay our salaries, rent/maintain the building, pay the utilities, buy insurance and security systems... Big Pharma shafts everyone in the medical system, except themselves. We need to change the WHOLE system, starting with the drug companies that get away with calling the same medication a "brand new" medication because the package is a different color. On behalf of the people who have to hand out this kind of $#!^ with a smile, I’m sorry. Your pharmacists and their technicians are stuck too. We need that $2.35/Rx filling fee from your insurance company to offset the damage we take from offering 30/$4.00 and similar ‘programs’. The jacked up price isn’t going to those of us in the white/blue smocks; we still get $2.35/Rx to type out, print up, buy, stock and sell your medications, plus pay our salaries, rent/maintain the building, pay the utilities, buy insurance and security systems… Big Pharma shafts everyone in the medical system, except themselves. We need to change the WHOLE system, starting with the drug companies that get away with calling the same medication a “brand new” medication because the package is a different color.

]]> By: 9 Insider Tips for Dosing Your Drug Dollars | Doc Gurley http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/comment-page-1/#comment-3594 9 Insider Tips for Dosing Your Drug Dollars | Doc Gurley Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:27:38 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/#comment-3594 [...] roommate, can really help reduce the number of albuterol prescriptions you must fill at the new, price-rigged cost. It’s hard for many of us to make sustained changes to our habits - but learning that you [...] [...] roommate, can really help reduce the number of albuterol prescriptions you must fill at the new, price-rigged cost. It’s hard for many of us to make sustained changes to our habits – but learning that you [...]

]]> By: Atticus Osler http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/comment-page-1/#comment-3346 Atticus Osler Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:58:46 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/#comment-3346 Don't blame this one on the "eco movement." This is just good old free enterprise hijacked by Big Corp Amuck, Inc. If this is Blackwater, wait until Halliburton in this industry is unveiled. We didn't even have to create a war for this one. Medicines ongoing and everlasting and unwinnable "War on Death" doesn't do well as Bidness. That is why I nearly scream, "You forking ice hole"! when I hear a lecturer say, "Medicine is a business, ya' know." Well, only if you, like Captain Jean Luc Piccard, "make it so." If you care more about a luxurious retirement than justice to sick or someday-to-be-sick, maybe so. This is a neglected and victimized majority. Now it is not small business free enterprise that rules our republic. The profession that should be somewhere near Jesus on the "left" of the scale thinking that Rush Limbaugh is their spokesman, and the right with the "green" is the direction in which to lean. We can only make a difference in pharmaceutical news inversely proportional to what we are afraid to lose. Nothing short of a peaceful, kind, and outraged revolution in our profession will suffice, even if you do think that conservative means "small government." Eisenhower wasn't kidding when he warned of a military-industrial complex. He wasn't referring to a purely psychiatric diagnosis. Now it's just the Government-Big Corp-(Military-and-not) Complex. Maybe they are helping finance Area 51's pursuit of the ultimate weapons for the next war with the money for those inhalers. So don't be unpatriotic and complaining like that. Why doctors would want to "buy into that" and prostitute a noble principle of "First Do No Harm is both stupefying and tragic. It has made Wal-mart shoppers of all of us. Don’t blame this one on the “eco movement.” This is just good old free enterprise hijacked by Big Corp Amuck, Inc. If this is Blackwater, wait until Halliburton in this industry is unveiled. We didn’t even have to create a war for this one. Medicines ongoing and everlasting and unwinnable “War on Death” doesn’t do well as Bidness. That is why I nearly scream, “You forking ice hole”! when I hear a lecturer say, “Medicine is a business, ya’ know.” Well, only if you, like Captain Jean Luc Piccard, “make it so.” If you care more about a luxurious retirement than justice to sick or someday-to-be-sick, maybe so. This is a neglected and victimized majority. Now it is not small business free enterprise that rules our republic. The profession that should be somewhere near Jesus on the “left” of the scale thinking that Rush Limbaugh is their spokesman, and the right with the “green” is the direction in which to lean. We can only make a difference in pharmaceutical news inversely proportional to what we are afraid to lose. Nothing short of a peaceful, kind, and outraged revolution in our profession will suffice, even if you do think that conservative means “small government.” Eisenhower wasn’t kidding when he warned of a military-industrial complex. He wasn’t referring to a purely psychiatric diagnosis. Now it’s just the Government-Big Corp-(Military-and-not) Complex. Maybe they are helping finance Area 51’s pursuit of the ultimate weapons for the next war with the money for those inhalers. So don’t be unpatriotic and complaining like that. Why doctors would want to “buy into that” and prostitute a noble principle of “First Do No Harm is both stupefying and tragic. It has made Wal-mart shoppers of all of us.

]]> By: Stavros Krysiak http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1998 Stavros Krysiak Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:01:36 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/#comment-1998 My insurance, Blue Cross, jacked up the co payment on my inhaler claiming that it is a new drug. It was reformulated without freon. What a scam! My insurance, Blue Cross, jacked up the co payment on my inhaler claiming that it is a new drug. It was reformulated without freon. What a scam!

]]> By: A Grain of Salt | Doc Gurley http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1026 A Grain of Salt | Doc Gurley Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:37:36 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/#comment-1026 [...] Maybe you could end up needing less of the medicines you now use (see the Doc Gurley article This Is Not The Time To Suck It Up for more on why you’ll want to be using less of your inhaler - but only as long as you [...] [...] Maybe you could end up needing less of the medicines you now use (see the Doc Gurley article This Is Not The Time To Suck It Up for more on why you’ll want to be using less of your inhaler – but only as long as you [...]

]]> By: Doc Gurley http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1008 Doc Gurley Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:51:12 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/#comment-1008 Ah. There is probably nothing more effective for Big Pharma than to have an anonymous poster say "why bother - we're all doomed anyways..." Ah. There is probably nothing more effective for Big Pharma than to have an anonymous poster say “why bother – we’re all doomed anyways…”

]]> By: Repent http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1005 Repent Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:56:12 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/#comment-1005 Where the hell have you been? What difference does it make now? This kinda crap has been going on for years, this or something like it in other industries. We are now the Democratically Fascist United Theocratic States of Corporate America. We've been headed this way for years while the sleeple slept. And when it finally backfires on them and there's no one left to buy their shit, no one left to gouge but each other, they still won't get it. But...I'm not cynical. Just realistic. Where the hell have you been? What difference does it make now? This kinda crap has been going on for years, this or something like it in other industries. We are now the Democratically Fascist United Theocratic States of Corporate America. We’ve been headed this way for years while the sleeple slept.

And when it finally backfires on them and there’s no one left to buy their shit, no one left to gouge but each other, they still won’t get it.

But…I’m not cynical. Just realistic.

]]> By: Doc Gurley http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/comment-page-1/#comment-955 Doc Gurley Fri, 30 May 2008 20:41:27 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/#comment-955 Are you frustrated about this FDA rip-off? Are you wondering what you can do, besides feeling victimized? Do you commiserate and want to lend a hand? Read the Doc Gurley post http://www.docgurley.com/2008/05/30/im-not-going-to-suck-it-up/ for information on how you can make a difference. Remember - feeling helpless is bad for you...and good for them. Action is the best revenge. Are you frustrated about this FDA rip-off? Are you wondering what you can do, besides feeling victimized? Do you commiserate and want to lend a hand? Read the Doc Gurley post http://www.docgurley.com/2008/05/30/im-not-going-to-suck-it-up/
for information on how you can make a difference. Remember – feeling helpless is bad for you…and good for them. Action is the best revenge.

]]> By: Dave Mullins http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/comment-page-1/#comment-948 Dave Mullins Thu, 29 May 2008 04:15:13 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/2007/11/05/this-is-not-the-time-to-suck-it-up/#comment-948 The middle class American will soon be a distant memory. At the rate our manufacturing and tech jobs are being outsourced, we will be trying to pay for these meds with fast food and dish washing jobs. The middle class American will soon be a distant memory. At the rate our manufacturing and tech jobs are being outsourced, we will be trying to pay for these meds with fast food and dish washing jobs.

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