re: Bayou Brief just ended Ralph Abrahams shot at Gov

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Bayou Brief just ended Ralph Abrahams shot at Gov

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No they did not.

Lamar White runs Bayou Brief and he's the same democrat hack that tried to smear Steve Scalise by linking him to KKK events and nothing came of it and he's the second most powerful republican in the House of Reps today.

Oh and there's this from a local pharmacist who's not a fan of Abraham who knows more than Lamar White ever will....

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You democrats are f**king desperate if this is all you have to go on because Doc will destroy gov honor code and his lying arse with facts at any debate since Doc actually understands medicine and JBE only understands fricking Louisiana's taxpayers.

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Edwards's press shop The Advocate releasing bad polls with adjusted data for the numbers they want.

GumboPac trying to slime Rispone and Abraham with shitty commercials that they are forced to rework or take down.

And now, Louisiana democrats oppo dumping ground, Bayou Brief, is pushing defamatory stories about Abraham being a drug dealer, a story so sleazy not even JBE or the advocate will touch it.




Goddamn, they are fricking scared Honor Code is living on borrowed time, will not win the first round outright and and a conservative reformer is going to win the runoff and end their gravy train.

Personal responsibility has to come into question on this opioid issue at some point. Why is it always someone else's fault???

Look WeeWee I said

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Unless there was an opioid in the drip that was connected to me when I came out of surgery I have never taken an opioid.

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I was not wrong--I did not know as I orginally said.


Now I want to understand how you so flippantly dismiss this huge usage of opioids. I am not speaking at all about Abraham. You say what his pharmacy is doing is no big deal I believe you feel that way. I believe you really aren't surprised by the numbers the one poster said the WalMart in Winnsboro is selling.

Explain to me just why we should not be alarmed that in such a small population of people so many prescriptions by doctors are being written and filled for opioids. That is what I want to know.

What do the doctors in the so called pain clinics do besides write prescriptions for opioids? Are you a pain clinic doc? Are they really legal drug pushers as many say?

Now here for your information is what a medicaid patient pays for prescriptions

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Prescription Co-Pays

For many members, medications are covered at no cost to you. Some members may need to pay for a small portion of their medications. This is called a “copay.” Louisiana Healthcare Connections pays for the rest of the cost.

The table below lists copays based on the actual cost of the prescription.
PRESCRIPTION COST COPAY
$10.00 or less $0.5
Between $10.01 and $25.00 $1.00
Between $25.01 and $50.00 $2.00
More than $50.01 $3.00

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So the most they pay is $3.

I am no medical expert but I do not know a thing or two about supply and demand and price and demand.

I guarantee you if tomorrow we ended paying for opioids with medicaid and medicare the usage would dramatically decline. I suspect that NOTHING has added to the opiod epidemic more than damn near free drugs.

Now you tell me that you think a regular prescription is only $14. Even a $14 the demand will be much less than it is at $.50 (the cost in the above example for a $14 script.) I suggest we tax the stuff $10 more and make is $24.

Nothing would do more to reduce use and abuse than to make them cost more. We should definitely end medicare and medicare use for opiod prescriptions. No more than they cost those people can pay cash for them

No way docs should have a say in the subsidies taxpayers should pay for the cost of drugs. That is a huge conflict of interest.

What the heck is a little corruption? Fits in well with all of Washington D.C.

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If a person takes a pain pill every 4-6 hours. That makes it about 6 days worth of pills per person per year. Obviously it is more complicated than that because cancer pt and chronic pain syndrome patients take way more than 6 days worth of pain meds per year.

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Well, yea and most kids take virtually none and I’d imagine large majority of adults too. So it cuts both ways

But hearing the hospital for a large area is there will obviously make the per capita data wonky without digging in deeper so it’s a bad article that doesn’t prove anything

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We should end medicaid and medicare TODAY

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FIFY

I’d like to know what the pharmacies charge for a gallon of milk. The cost of milk at pharmacies is a freaking crime.

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STILL a huge number. What other maladies use 4 pills a day for a year?

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Four pills a day is not a huge number for cancer