| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/05/13, 3:04 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Ten years ago, a sharply divided Congress decided to pour billions of dollars into subsidizing the purchase of drugs by elderly and disabled Americans. The initiative, the biggest expansion of Medicare since its creation in 1965, proved wildly popular. It now serves more than 35
million people, delivering critical medicines to patients who might
otherwise be unable to afford them. Its price tag is far lower than
expected.
But an investigation by ProPublica has found the program, in its drive to get drugs into patients’ hands, has failed to properly monitor
safety. An analysis of four years of Medicare prescription records shows
that some doctors and other health professionals across the country
prescribe large quantities of drugs that are potentially harmful,
disorienting or addictive for their patients. Federal officials have
done little to detect or deter these hazardous prescribing patterns.Please read on
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