this hustler thinks he
knows more about medicine than the nation’s leading medical doctors....
it is enough to send a chill up your spine.
barrett a. toan, the boss of express scripts, a
company that handles payments for pharmaceuticals among other things, has now
decided that he will decide who gets what medicine and by extension who will
live and who will die.
he gets the “hey abbott award” for this week.
since barrett’s office appears to be in
how in the world did this ugly little man get the
right to determine what medicine should be prescribed by a doctor? it certainly wasn’t from his medical
expertise.
a recent horrifying example is the medicine “miralax”
being prescribed by a doctor for use in a pending colonoscopy.
barrett decided that he didn’t like “miralax” and
because of that he would refuse to pay for it.
his position was that the doctor should use another supposedly similar
concoction.
the doctor who prescribed “miralax” just happened
to be the inventor of the colonoscopy.
the patient had the dilemma of listening to her
doctor or abiding by barrett the buffoon.
of course, she went with the doctor’s decision and just paid for the
medicine herself which is actually what express scripts wanted her to do.
in all fairness to barrett, he said that the
patient could appeal his decision and would get an answer in ten days, maybe.
that is a great choice. you are worried about the procedure that is
to be done and you are worried about the outcome, so you are going to wait for
some schmuck in
that ten day review was not guaranteed, by the
way.
decisions like that probably depend on whether or
not barrett a. toan (or was that toad) was playing golf that week.