I don’t really care if a patient goes to a weight loss telemedicine company specifically seeking Wegoovy. I don’t care if a pharma company employs a doctor who serves a yes man on prescriptions. I don’t care that your PCP gatekeeps the prescription pad. I don’t care that the insurance company wants to double check you actually need the drug before paying.
It’s only the fact that all of these things are happening simultaneously that’s the problem. We could not gate keep drugs, but make them cheap enough or OOP so that costs don’t rise. We could gatekeep drugs and make PCPs actually accessible to the working class. We could let pharma employ a someone who only had the power to yes/no their drug, make sure they can’t advertise, and delegate more power to pharmacists to make clinical decisions. It’s not like there isn’t a solution here. The real problem here is really US culture and political leadership.
I don’t really care if a patient goes to a weight loss telemedicine company specifically seeking Wegoovy. I don’t care if a pharma company employs a doctor who serves a yes man on prescriptions. I don’t care that your PCP gatekeeps the prescription pad. I don’t care that the insurance company wants to double check you actually need the drug before paying.
It’s only the fact that all of these things are happening simultaneously that’s the problem. We could not gate keep drugs, but make them cheap enough or OOP so that costs don’t rise. We could gatekeep drugs and make PCPs actually accessible to the working class. We could let pharma employ a someone who only had the power to yes/no their drug, make sure they can’t advertise, and delegate more power to pharmacists to make clinical decisions. It’s not like there isn’t a solution here. The real problem here is really US culture and political leadership.