the true costs of ivermectin to society

[butters]

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from people getting sick through poisoning themselves, to people getting sick with covid rather than take the vaccines, to others getting sick from variants up to and including Delta because the unvaxxed were allowing it to transmit faster, and even livestock suffering where their regular supplies of the anti-parasitic weren't available, now there's been a financial study of the costs.

Now, thanks to researchers at the University of Michigan and Boston University, we also know the financial toll of the ivermectin craze. In a research letter published Thursday by the Journal of the American Medical Assn., they estimated that Medicare and private insurers wasted an estimated $130 million last year on ivermectin prescriptions for COVID.

"That's not small potatoes," the lead author of the letter, Kao-Ping Chua of the University of Michigan Medical School, told me. The unit cost of ivermectin pills is low — about $1 to $1.50 per pill — but the volume of wasteful prescriptions adds up.

The $129.7 million spent on wasteful ivermectin, the letter's authors calculated, is more than the annual Medicare spending on unnecessary imaging for lower back pain, a low-value diagnostic order that has been widely researched. No one has paid much attention to the ivermectin expense, however.

The researchers' estimate may even be low for two main reasons. One is that their estimate is based on spending by private insurers and Medicare, but not Medicaid, which also covers the drug.

Second, they arrived at their figure by extrapolating from that one week highlighted by the CDC, when the average of new cases in the U.S. was running at about 150,000 a day. On Jan. 12, the daily average of new cases was more than 782,000. If ivermectin claims are tracking new cases, Chua says, then they may be getting filled at more than five times as often as last August.

 

[BidudeinWi]

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from people getting sick through poisoning themselves, to people getting sick with covid rather than take the vaccines, to others getting sick from variants up to and including Delta because the unvaxxed were allowing it to transmit faster, and even livestock suffering where their regular supplies of the anti-parasitic weren't available, now there's been a financial study of the costs.

“ Veritas Documents Reveal DC Bureaucrats Had Evidence Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine Were Effective in Treating COVID — BUT HID THIS FROM PUBLIC!”

You’re a complete ignorant and glib douche for starting this thread! You have ZERO knowledge of what you just posted!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...oroquine-effective-treating-covid-hid-public/

Or, if you don’t like TGP, here, asswipe:

https://c19ivermectin.com/

Congratulations on spreading misinformation and disinformation! You’re as bad as CNN!

 

[KeithD]

But is there a stat on how many Trumpers it put underground? That would need to be discounted.

 

[JohnnySavage]

So the take-away is that doctors wrote $130 million of prescriptions?

I thought doctors didn't think it worked? Are they fake doctors writing the prescriptions? Reading the Lit, doctors are right next to God so these have to be fraudulent prescriptions. Is CMA pursuing these fraud claims?

 

[WillJ8787]

Wonder why Veritas doesn't investigate this...only one side do they "investigate".

 

[LittleDixie]

So the take-away is that doctors wrote $130 million of prescriptions?

I thought doctors didn't think it worked? Are they fake doctors writing the prescriptions? Reading the Lit, doctors are right next to God so these have to be fraudulent prescriptions. Is CMA pursuing these fraud claims?

Oh, I see your mistake. Doctors are infallible so long as they agree with the Left.

Doctors who disagree with the vaccines or who propose alternate points of view on treatment are quacks and crackpots and never get anything right.

 

[ShyBiGuy954]

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[ll74]

Oh, I see your mistake. Doctors are infallible so long as they agree with the Left.

Doctors who disagree with the vaccines or who propose alternate points of view on treatment are quacks and crackpots and never get anything right.

How long has your doctor prescribed you I/H?

 

[LittleDixie]

In a research letter published Thursday by the Journal of the American Medical Assn., they estimated that Medicare and private insurers wasted an estimated $130 million last year on ivermectin prescriptions for COVID.

The Ivermectin was prescribed by doctors and the bill was augmented by insurers.

$130 million dollars worth of pills authorized by doctors.

Do you think we should listen to doctors, or not?

 

[ll74]

The Ivermectin was prescribed by doctors and the bill was augmented by insurers.

$130 million dollars worth of pills authorized by doctors.

Do you think we should listen to doctors, or not?

There's a difference between a doctor prescribing medicine because they are asked to prescribe it and a doctor who advises a patient to take a medicine.

I doubt you can find any metric that would differentiate the two, due to privacy laws. So I guess you could argue your point without sufficient data to refute..good job.

 

[BidudeinWi]

There's a difference between a doctor prescribing medicine because they are asked to prescribe it and a doctor who advises a patient to take a medicine.

I doubt you can find any metric that would differentiate the two, due to privacy laws. So I guess you could argue your point without sufficient data to refute..good job.

You’re a mindless idiot! You prefer the ignance over science. Ya just can’t fix stupid!

“ Veritas Documents Reveal DC Bureaucrats Had Evidence Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine Were Effective in Treating COVID — BUT HID THIS FROM PUBLIC.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...oroquine-effective-treating-covid-hid-public/

PS - GreenFace, you’re such a partisan hack it’s unbelievable! Nobody on this board takes you seriously!

It’s obvious your K-12 public education shines with every post! What an ass hat!

 

[phrodeau]

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This just in, from the State of Texas:

https://www.dshs.texas.gov/immunize/covid19/data/cases-and-deaths-by-vaccination-status-11082021.pdf

Vaccination had a strong protective effect on infections and deaths among people of all ages. The protective impact on infections was consistent across adult age groups and even greater in people ages 12 to 17 years. The protective impact on COVID-19 deaths, which was high for all age groups, varied more widely. In the September time frame, unvaccinated people in their 40s were 55 times more likely to die from COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated people of the same age. Unvaccinated people aged 75 years and older were 12 times more likely to die than their vaccinated counterparts.

 

[ll74]

Gateway Pundit ftw

Funny how they claim Fauci conspired to stop studies in the drugs, yet provided no evidence of that claim

You’re a mindless idiot! You prefer the ignance over science. Ya just can’t fix stupid!

“ Veritas Documents Reveal DC Bureaucrats Had Evidence Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine Were Effective in Treating COVID — BUT HID THIS FROM PUBLIC.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...oroquine-effective-treating-covid-hid-public/

PS - GreenFace, you’re such a partisan hack it’s unbelievable! Nobody on this board takes you seriously!

It’s obvious your K-12 public education shines with every post! What an ass hat!

 

[butters]

There's a difference between a doctor prescribing medicine because they are asked to prescribe it and a doctor who advises a patient to take a medicine.

I doubt you can find any metric that would differentiate the two, due to privacy laws. So I guess you could argue your point without sufficient data to refute..good job.

bingo, and also there are some doctors who actually believe the shit works on covid, though they are few and far between

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/me...in-to-treat-covid-19/ar-AASSfKV?ocid=msedgntp
4 inmates suing prison that gave them 'vitamins, antibiotics or steroids' when they were, in fact, being dosed with ivermectin. The case reminds people of the Tuskagee Study. It is–quite simply–wrong to give another person medication they have agreed to take having been told it is something different. Some of the doses were given out as early as November 2020, but others were still being given these as late as August 2021, when vaccines were available.

The inmates at Washington County Jail were told the pills they were taking were just vitamins, antibiotics or steroids, according to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas in federal court Thursday on behalf of the detainees.

'The truth, however, was that without knowing and voluntary consent, Plaintiffs ingested incredibly high doses of a drug that credible medical professionals, the FDA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, all agree is not an effective treatment against COVID-19,' the lawsuit continued.

'No one - including incarcerated individuals - should be deceived and subject to medical experimentation. Sheriff Helder has a responsibility to provide food, shelter, and safe, appropriate care to incarcerated individuals,' said Gary Sullivan, legal director of the ACLU of Arkansas.

According to the lawsuit, Floreal-Wooten, Little, Gonzales, and Blackburn tested positive for COVID and were quarantined in August 2021. The complaint then claims that the individuals were given a cocktail of drugs, including two to ten ivermectin pills a day.

 

[butters]

In this new study, an analysis of private insurance and Medicare Advantage claims from December 2020 through March 2021 revealed 5,600 prescriptions for oral ivermectin that weren't written for a parasitic infection.

The total cost per ivermectin prescription for COVID-19 was $58 for private plans, which paid 61% of this amount, or about $36. The total cost per prescription was $52 for Medicare Advantage plans, which paid 74% of this amount, or about $39. Patients paid the rest of the cost.

Based on these findings, the researchers calculated that private and Medicare plans may have paid $2.4 million for COVID-19-related ivermectin prescriptions in the week of Aug. 13, 2021 alone.

At that rate, insurers would spend nearly $130 million a year on ivermectin prescriptions for COVID-19, according to the study. The results were published online Jan. 13 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Insurers should match their coverage of ivermectin with the level of medical evidence surrounding it — just as they do for other medications, tests and procedures, the authors advised. They should also require doctors to justify prescribing ivermectin during the pandemic by filling out a prior authorization form, they added.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/me...gh-drug-doesn-t-work/ar-AASRWoN?ocid=msedgntp

 

[Chernosoth]

I thought of taking ivermectin for my severe cold, flu, or whatever I had, but distribution has been restricted and suppressed to push the gene therapy shots. Maybe it will be more available next winter, after many doctors and politicians die of their own incompetence and stupidity.

 

[pecksniff]

Oh, I see your mistake. Doctors are infallible so long as they agree with the Left.

Doctors who disagree with the vaccines or who propose alternate points of view on treatment are quacks and crackpots and never get anything right.

Well, those of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons certainly are quacks and crackpots.

 

[pecksniff]

There's a difference between a doctor prescribing medicine because they are asked to prescribe it and a doctor who advises a patient to take a medicine.

I never could make any sense of those "Ask your doctor if Profitusol is right for you!" ads. When I go to a doctor, I expect the doctor to know what drugs are right for me. That's why he went to medical school. Shouldn't the pharmaceutical companies focus their marketing on the doctors instead of the patients?

 

[BidudeinWi]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/ins...in-stupidity/ar-AASNasJ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

from people getting sick through poisoning themselves, to people getting sick with covid rather than take the vaccines, to others getting sick from variants up to and including Delta because the unvaxxed were allowing it to transmit faster, and even livestock suffering where their regular supplies of the anti-parasitic weren't available, now there's been a financial study of the costs.

67 controlled studies on the effectiveness of ivermectin. That doesn’t even begin to touch the global data on ivermectin’s effectiveness!

Per usual, you’re full of disinformation!

https://needtoknow.news/2022/01/doc...uine-effective-in-treating-covid-were-buried/