Comments on: Your Doctor’s Prescriptions: Not Private http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/12/yes-they-can-totally-tell.html Yet Another Media Spotlight Sat, 19 May 2012 05:04:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jeff Lorenzini http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/12/yes-they-can-totally-tell.html#comment-662 Jeff Lorenzini Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:48:20 +0000 http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/12/yes-they-can-totally-tell.html#comment-662 And to think that kick-backs are illegal is just laughable. My friend Mike from high school is a drug rep. Those doctors are treated right, man, they get free trips and dinners and all kinds of stuff. The only thing that's illegal is to ask the doctor to prescribe a drug for something other than its permitted purpose. And to think that kick-backs are illegal is just laughable. My friend Mike from high school is a drug rep. Those doctors are treated right, man, they get free trips and dinners and all kinds of stuff.

The only thing that’s illegal is to ask the doctor to prescribe a drug for something other than its permitted purpose.

]]> By: Tom Chappell http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/12/yes-they-can-totally-tell.html#comment-540 Tom Chappell Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:38:59 +0000 http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/12/yes-they-can-totally-tell.html#comment-540 Ah, another poppy blooms (and in December, too!) Ah, another poppy blooms (and in December, too!)

]]> By: Bill Standley http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/12/yes-they-can-totally-tell.html#comment-539 Bill Standley Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:31:41 +0000 http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/12/yes-they-can-totally-tell.html#comment-539 Oy!!! Oy!!!

]]> By: Tom Chappell http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/12/yes-they-can-totally-tell.html#comment-508 Tom Chappell Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:49:03 +0000 http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/12/yes-they-can-totally-tell.html#comment-508 It's sad, because obviously we can't prevent the insurance companies from knowing what prescriptions the doctors write for the insurance companies' actual customers. So, there's pretty much no way to prevent them from kicking doctors off their networks based on that data. But it still seems horribly wrong to allow them to call up the doctors and strong-arm them about your specific care. It’s sad, because obviously we can’t prevent the insurance companies from knowing what prescriptions the doctors write for the insurance companies’ actual customers. So, there’s pretty much no way to prevent them from kicking doctors off their networks based on that data.

But it still seems horribly wrong to allow them to call up the doctors and strong-arm them about your specific care.

]]> By: John Blackburn http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/12/yes-they-can-totally-tell.html#comment-507 John Blackburn Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:45:07 +0000 http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/12/yes-they-can-totally-tell.html#comment-507 The claim that the measure would "prevent the health care community from monitoring the safety of new drugs" implies that your prescriptions are correlated with later treatment, which isn't hard to believe. But prescribing physicians could just as easily do the correlation themselves and report the results anonymized, bypassing entirely the need to report the prescriptions. A thin excuse. The claim that the measure would “prevent the health care community from monitoring the safety of new drugs” implies that your prescriptions are correlated with later treatment, which isn’t hard to believe. But prescribing physicians could just as easily do the correlation themselves and report the results anonymized, bypassing entirely the need to report the prescriptions. A thin excuse.

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