Comments on: How Pharma is making billions from the poor http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/how-pharma-is-making-billions-from.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/how-pharma-is-making-billions-from.html#comment-65123 Anonymous Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:11:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/07/how-pharma-is-making-billions-from-the-poor.html#comment-65123 RJS, that's funny and so very wrong and you know it. Before those people wern't forced to participate in a plan that is costing a very large portion of their income to purchase prescription drugs, many had medicaid for prescription coverage. The big pharms have just figured out a way to steal from the poor. <br/><br/>Lets see alot of these people (on SSI) get about 603.00 per month to live on. Their medicare part B is 88.50. Lets say they pay another 33.50 a month for their part D through whatever ins. company they have chosen then they go to the pharmacy to pick up their 8 prescriptions and only 4 are covered. One is on preferred plan for 25.00 each other 3 are on the higher end for 65.00 each. You want to do the math. <br/><br/>Don't forget they still have to pay rent and utilities and buy groceries. Yes buddy, big pharms and this Bush administration knew just exactly what they were doing when they set this up. Don't say they should have picked a plan that covers more than 4 because there isn't one. RJS, that’s funny and so very wrong and you know it. Before those people wern’t forced to participate in a plan that is costing a very large portion of their income to purchase prescription drugs, many had medicaid for prescription coverage. The big pharms have just figured out a way to steal from the poor.

Lets see alot of these people (on SSI) get about 603.00 per month to live on. Their medicare part B is 88.50. Lets say they pay another 33.50 a month for their part D through whatever ins. company they have chosen then they go to the pharmacy to pick up their 8 prescriptions and only 4 are covered. One is on preferred plan for 25.00 each other 3 are on the higher end for 65.00 each. You want to do the math.

Don’t forget they still have to pay rent and utilities and buy groceries. Yes buddy, big pharms and this Bush administration knew just exactly what they were doing when they set this up. Don’t say they should have picked a plan that covers more than 4 because there isn’t one.

]]> By: RJShttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/how-pharma-is-making-billions-from.html#comment-65078 RJS Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:34:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/07/how-pharma-is-making-billions-from-the-poor.html#comment-65078 Oh nose! The horror!<br/><br/>The first sentence of the article made me laugh:<br/><br/><i>"The pharmaceutical industry is beginning to reap a windfall from a surprisingly lucrative niche market: drugs for poor people."</i><br/><br/>Probably a windfall because those poor people weren't getting necessary medications before.<br/><br/>Spinjobs everywhere! Why? Because people love to hate. Oh nose! The horror!

The first sentence of the article made me laugh:

“The pharmaceutical industry is beginning to reap a windfall from a surprisingly lucrative niche market: drugs for poor people.”

Probably a windfall because those poor people weren’t getting necessary medications before.

Spinjobs everywhere! Why? Because people love to hate.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/how-pharma-is-making-billions-from.html#comment-65077 Anonymous Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:29:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/07/how-pharma-is-making-billions-from-the-poor.html#comment-65077 Those big bad drug companies. Making mooney is a bad thing, unless, of course, the physicians are ones doing it. T Those big bad drug companies. Making mooney is a bad thing, unless, of course, the physicians are ones doing it. T

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