you have a great attitude, an employer would be happy to have you. I agree, Pharmacists are so important in healthcare! And Overworked!

Everything is about having the "codes" to charge for your services. What needs to occur is Medicare setting mandats that education needed and from pharmacists. Small private practices could not afford your services- that is why payment codes necessary without charge to patients. I've cared for too many patients that did start or continue medications due to cost. When administration investigated new computer services, I requested an APP or service that automatically determines cost based on individual patients insurance. The physoan and or pharmacist can then assist patient for alternative medications. The fact that physicians are pressed to spend 10 to 15 minutes with each patient makes their job difficult. After office visit I receive Emails enquiring regards to wait time. I either lie or ignore the email. 15 minutes for new or complex Patientsis insufficient!!!! You would would be valuable. If Medicare has not emphasized need for studies that will focus on decreased hospitalizations and decreased end organ injury with medication compliance issue. If they had, where is the proof assisting patients and PCP/Specialists? Sorry, venting. I have worked at teaching facility ICUs that employed Pharmacists to round with the "group" and provide input and additional education. I was spoiled

Actually not really, most costs I've seen is around 10 grand. If you can't afford that, don't have children because children themselves are far more expensive than their medical bills without insurance help.

Even in my stable aforementioned situation, I consider ten thousand dollars at one time to be a lot of money. And it wouldn't be a ten thousand dollar deduction from the cost of raising a child, it would be in addition to it! In society at large, saying, "Don't have children" or "You can't afford to have children" does not keep people from having children.

And, of course, any time women's health care comes up, it seems like access to birth control and to abortion become the focus. You won't be able to hold a reasonable discussion of women's health care through all the shouts of the anti-choice crowd and they will stonewall any plan that would provide for "their tax dollars" going toward either of those two things.

carol Heaton THIS. And people (men actually voting on these ridiculous bills) disregard the fact that birth control is NOT just for not getting pregnant but also a lifeline for many women with hormonal issues..and preventative care doesnt mean were all running to get unneeded services! A LOT of womens health issues are not a focus of even doctors (ob gyn included) and to get proper, informed care beyond "hmm, sounds like you're just having pms, heres another birth control to try that should help!" You have to insist on testing that insurance doesn't cover or seek out an endocrinologist who has a deep understanding of hormones that is considered specialty care and also needs to be fought to cover by the insurance that we pay massive amounts for! I wish that more people gave a shit about womens health and were open to educating themselves instead of assuming that preventative care for women isn't important, women who choose to have children magically have $30,000 to pay the hospital bills associated with birth because some hidden master list decided that the cost is fair (?!), and all of the rest of womens health is basically just abortions. You're spot on!

Would you rather be alive or have a house? If it's the former on a societal level, then makes sense why you'd pay more for that.

TheBlackMage3 yes!!! the amount of people I see that are frequent flyers because they're non compliant. that's my biggest pet peeve. you have people on disability for whatever reason, they're non compliant in their treatment and end up in the hospital constantly. so not only are our tax dollars going to pay for treatment they're not compliant with but our tax dollars are also going to pay for this person to continue being on disability because they're not doing what they should. it's so frustrating

Stay tuned, we'll be doing whole future shows devoted to exactly this topic.

Big Scary Bald Guy great idea

That would require dumdum to actually want any intelligent input on ways to actually benefit citizens who aren't billionaires..

+Ryan Connor it's 4K 24p...give KZfaq some time to process it :-)

24p, too slow, I am very butthurt

Michele Eslick Promote whole food nutrition to patients rather than pills. Simple answer.

Jonathan Walker - I do promote good nutrition. But some patients don't have the budget for what you're asking. Hell, I don't have the budget for an all whole foods diet and I work full time as an RN. Before I had kids, I could afford it. Now, I have to pick and choose. I know that you'll insist that everyone can afford it, but I'm saying. That's not true. 1 in 5 kids in my state has food insecurity. They'll take any meal that comes their way. It's like when politicians don't want to raise the minimum wage and opponents state that people CAN live on $8/hour. Absolutely not, It can't be done. And I'm not a pill pusher. But nutrition won't instantly change someone who's hypertensive into having normal BPs. Meds are necessary and hopefully diet can help, but sometimes it can't.

Michele Eslick That's an absolute bullshit response. Perpetuating a problem just because it's there, is not an acceptable answer from someone who has taken on the role of a modern day healer. Im on a completely whole food diet and spend $45 a week. As a nutritionist and Massage Therapist, it's my Duty to my clients to research every avenue of health for them, including with shopping tips. Are you suggesting that I am the First to mention that you should research the cost of a whole food diet before saying it's too costly, just because everyone Says it's too costly? Im inclined to ask because if you Truly were living that lifestyle and eating that way, youd know that whole food recipes that give you your full RDI of carbs, plant based proteins, and sugars are extremely cost effective. I have beach front property in Kansas for sale. My neighbor agrees that it's there, you down to purchase some property, or do you wanna do a little research first? Thats my point. Excuses in the information age dont get very far anymore. Just sayin ;)

Jonathan Walker Jonathan Walker Jonathan Walker I'm speaking as a person who has TRIED to afford a Whole Foods diet for my family of 4 and you just made my point for me. A person that makes $320/week (minimum wage) can't spent $45/week in food, especially if they have dependents. Are you saying $45 per person per week? I have patients who can't afford massage. You have patients with disposable income. I have patients that can't afford their $5 prescription necessary for post partum BP issues. (I'm using this as an example because it affects pregnant women in a way that doesn't discriminate based on dietary choices. And pre-eclampsia and eclampsia is very real and affects vegans in equal measure). I do give dietary instructions to my patient upon discharge because many are breastfeeding and need some extra calories to make milk. I tell them not to diet or cut calories in the first 6 weeks. Eat to their hunger, drink plenty of fluids and eat fiber. I encourage them to shop on the outside aisles of the grocery store as much as possible, but that I understand their financial concerns, especially when women have UNPAID maternity leave and rely on WIC for food. WIC in my state has improved the types and amounts of food for exclusively breastfeeding moms, which is great. So I encourage them the best I can, but cost of living is high and people will shop at Walmart for cheap groceries. You shouldn't attack me as a person. You should try to listen to what I'm saying about the patient population and realize that there are people that can't even afford a co-pay to see their primary care. So, as an aside- I know you're attempting to make a joke about my intelligence, one must wonder why people like you give veganism a bad name. You get hangry about everything instead of having a robust discourse. It doesn't take a genius to know there's no Oceanfront property in Kansas. (You should have said Arizona, because at least that's a song). I've driven through Kansas, I would never buy any property there and waterfront property is overrated. Flooding is a bitch. I've lived through that too, but I'm sure you have an opinion on how I'm wrong about what it's like to live through a flood. 🙄

Michele Eslick I was Not attacking you as a person, I was pointing out a flawed mindset that should NOT be taken as gospel. The $45 mentioned includes Many items that end up being healthy leftovers for the following week. Adding people is not a fresh $45, it's adding a few extra bananas, 1 bag of beans, countless items that have a small portion added to go a long way. Im not pulling the veteran card to earn any brownie points, and I do hope you see my intentions for using it now. In fact it's more to stress your point than mine. The same government making it impossible to purchase good foods with WIC are feeding soldiers the Most Preservative Dense foods known to man. Fed us like shit until I got out in 2009. I later contracted in 2012 and finished in 2013. My injuries sustained were not treated with any nutritional advice, only pills. Pills that end up being really fucking pricey, especially with simple in house VA coverage. No medications are covered outside of the hospital, and with all the lawsuits against the VA because of soldiers dying in waiting rooms (yep, real thing, check it out) because they weren't being seen for 6-10 hours, it shyd me away from hospitals period. I dealt woth what i could. There was no doctor over the 12 year period since this injury that encouraged nutrition as a priority, as Hippocrates did. All of this to say, the medical field is a pill based, disease treatment industry, not an illness prevention industry. All of those treatments that you mentioned, the illnesses; When treated with proper nutrition, the body becomes too healthy for illness and disease to thrive. Weve seen Gerson therapy do wonders and Cure Non Hodgkins Lymphoma and Melanoma very rapidly. The money used in 1 month could potentially change All of those situations is my point. Medications can become obsolete is my point. Pills do not cure any thing, they are a life long commitment is my point. They were in my life until a vegan lifestyle kicked every prescription I took for my airborne accident. Chute didn't deploy properly and I nearly died, unable to perform a proper PLF. I am a poster child for the 15 meds the VA had me on, but budgeting for my quality of life became my priority. My mind cleared up, my energy levels rose, everything became easier, and my ability to work longer came rapidly.. I have nothing against you as a person. I have everything against an "Its not possible for everyone" approach. The law of attraction is true in all things. And it is up to every single person alive to encourage those around them to look away from big Pharma, and to more natural remedies. This joke of an MD gave the most disrespectful, bullshit riddled response to What the Health because he saw his paycheck depleting. My tolerance for the money hungry industry of population control through shitty dieting can only be pressed so far. Hopefully this clears things up? Namaste

Sorry, I can’t convince you that you should care about other people.

So basically LET THE POOR PEOPLE DIE ALREADY?! Is the country you live in america or no? What is the salary that 10k is coming out of? Were all in this together, you should care that your contribution helps children who aren't lucky enough to be born into wealth, or adults suffering from illness who happen to have low paying jobs or cannot find work at the moment despite trying! Remember that in the end we get to take NOTHING with us, would you rather have stockpiled money or saved peoples lives?