Does your Doc take Big Pharma money?

Many doctors are given money and other perks (trips to "conferences" for them and their families, etc) to prescribe medications to you. They are sometimes given 6% of the cost of medications for prescribing medications to you. While the government has passed legislation to try to prevent this behavior, it continues.

If you are curious about how much money your Doc or Hospital is accepting you can check on the government sight; they now "have to" declare it. (How often they Do is a whole other question).

There are so far no drugs that are proven to "cure" Alzheimer's. Some of the newer cancer drugs which claim to give you "a longer time with family" give you, if you read the fine print in their own TV ads, only 3-5 months more at a cost that break the bank (look at the tiny print as those ads of elders playing on the beach with their grandkids roll.

The site to check on big pharma perks is

OpenPaymentsData.cms.gov

https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/

It is difficult to be our own advocates in all of this, but there is information out there to help us.