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  • #121
    Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
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    • #122
      Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

      Terrific article:

      http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...care-rage.html

      I've asked this before but maybe some righties can answer out here: If in the "Obama economy" the drop in the unemployment rate is all due to part time jobs, and part time jobs don't offer benefits....then how is the uninsured rate dropping if the ACA has nothing to do with it???? Fishy, Flaggy, Opie, joe, Clown, etc etc - what gives?
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      • #123
        Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

        Originally posted by DrDemento View Post
        Could not agree more. The direct to consumer campaign in the media, advertising medications that only their doctor can write for them, is a major problem. They always show active attractive people having fun in life, doing all sorts of aerobic exercise. But listen carefully at the end as they roll through the side effects in that sweet voice monotone. And of course they should add, "ask your doctor if you suffer any of these side effects including death."
        God I hate that effing crap. I just about stab my eyes and ears every time I see a diabetes drug where the person is climbing Everest or they have some sort of upbeat song showing everyone doing a Simpsons-esque musical number.
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        Originally posted by bigblue_dl
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        Originally posted by Kepler
        When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
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        • #124
          Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

          Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
          God I hate that effing crap. I just about stab my eyes and ears every time I see a diabetes drug where the person is climbing Everest or they have some sort of upbeat song showing everyone doing a Simpsons-esque musical number.
          What was the allergy one where they played "What a Wonderful World"? I seem to recall the side effects including nosebleeds and coughing.

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          • #125
            Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
            God I hate that effing crap. I just about stab my eyes and ears every time I see a diabetes drug where the person is climbing Everest or they have some sort of upbeat song showing everyone doing a Simpsons-esque musical number.
            The key is trying to listen to that soft voice running down the side effects. Seemingly minimal as they go along, but some of the stuff listed scares the poop out of you. "May cause death" or other serious reactions is the one that gets my attention.
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            • #126
              Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

              Originally posted by DrDemento View Post
              The key is trying to listen to that soft voice running down the side effects. Seemingly minimal as they go along, but some of the stuff listed scares the poop out of you. "May cause death" or other serious reactions is the one that gets my attention.
              Like all of the anti-depression meds, they always talk about thoughts of suicide.

              I'm actually shocked they don't use the get-through-the-fine-print-quickly voice, similar to what you hear on radio ads.

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              • #127
                Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

                Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                I'm not saying that the samples are necessarily a bad thing - I've been given samples a couple of times when the doctor knows the med is name-brand with no generic equivalent, and will be a $40 co-pay.
                Knew exactly where your emphasis was but i could not let that little aside pass. I must say though, going way back-Roche had the supermodels of the industry calling on me. Especially when they came in with their spiel about Valium, Librium, and the various sleep medications like Dalmane and Noludar and Halcion. I was much younger back then and they knew exactly what to send into my office to get my attention. But if I sat in my consultation room with one of these for more than about 4 minutes, suddenly Jenny would have some emergency for me in the office that needed my immediate attention.
                Take the shortest distance to the puck and arrive in ill humor

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                • #128
                  Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

                  Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                  Like all of the anti-depression meds, they always talk about thoughts of suicide.

                  I'm actually shocked they don't use the get-through-the-fine-print-quickly voice, similar to what you hear on radio ads.
                  I am unaware of any antidepression medication that either does not or should have that warning. Depression can be very difficult to treat and deal with but one protective factor about it is that it usually is accompanied by poverty of action and motion. Depressed people just do not feel like doing anything, and that often includes killing themselves. Give them a sudden boost of positive energy, like sometimes happens with all these well meaning antidepressive medications, and sometimes you now have a very depressed person who has been given the energy to act on those impulses. It is a very tricky and delicate balance which takes considerable training and attention to treat. I shudder when I hear someone is just handed a prescription for these drugs without the careful monitoring necessary.
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                  • #129
                    Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

                    Originally posted by DrDemento View Post
                    The key is trying to listen to that soft voice running down the side effects. Seemingly minimal as they go along, but some of the stuff listed scares the poop out of you. "May cause death" or other serious reactions is the one that gets my attention.
                    Thats why I love the Phil Mickelson ad for Enbrel, read about biologics and you won't think its some walk on the back nine.
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                    • #130
                      Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

                      Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                      I'm actually shocked they don't use the get-through-the-fine-print-quickly voice, similar to what you hear on radio ads.
                      I wonder if they can't. I'm sure everything they do is right up against the edge of legality. Presumably there's a regulation, or they'd do it.
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                      • #131
                        Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

                        Originally posted by DrDemento View Post
                        I am unaware of any antidepression medication that either does not or should have that warning. Depression can be very difficult to treat and deal with but one protective factor about it is that it usually is accompanied by poverty of action and motion. Depressed people just do not feel like doing anything, and that often includes killing themselves. Give them a sudden boost of positive energy, like sometimes happens with all these well meaning antidepressive medications, and sometimes you now have a very depressed person who has been given the energy to act on those impulses. It is a very tricky and delicate balance which takes considerable training and attention to treat. I shudder when I hear someone is just handed a prescription for these drugs without the careful monitoring necessary.
                        I've always wondered about that. This is the first explanation why that's actually made sense to me.
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                        Originally posted by SanTropez
                        May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                        Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                        I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                        Originally posted by Kepler
                        When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                        He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                        • #132
                          Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

                          But if they made the warnings shorter, then the walks the attractive ladies make (looking to he sky) during the Viagra commercials would be so much shorter
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                          • #133
                            Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

                            I suppose other things would be shorter too.
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                            Originally posted by SanTropez
                            May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                            Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                            I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                            Originally posted by Kepler
                            When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                            He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                            • #134
                              Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                              I suppose other things would be shorter too.
                              Don't people like soft serve?
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                              • #135
                                Re: The PPACA Thread Part III - Let's have a healthy debate!

                                *groan*
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                                Originally posted by SanTropez
                                May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                                Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                                I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                                Originally posted by Kepler
                                When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                                He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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