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McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for OxyContin Overdoses

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We are all merely resources to corporations, politicians and law enforcement.

Yup. So much this. If everyone can realize this. We all are nothing but resources for companies, politicians and law enforcement is there to help the prior two.

It really is us the people that they are afraid of.

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We are all merely resources to corporations, politicians and law enforcement.

Yup. So much this. If everyone can realize this. We all are nothing but resources for companies, politicians and law enforcement is there to help the prior two. It really is us the people that they are afraid of.

If you’re cynical enough, you could easily argue that every relationship that any person has is based on nothing more than resources. Somebody claims to love their wife? Unlikely. They’re just looking for some love and fulfilment resource. Do you really like your friends? Or do you just like the way friendship makes you feel?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup. So much this. If everyone can realize this. We all are nothing but resources for companies, politicians and law enforcement is there to help the prior two. It really is us the people that they are afraid of.

If you’re cynical enough, you could easily argue that every relationship that any person has is based on nothing more than resources. Somebody claims to love their wife? Unlikely. They’re just looking for some love and fulfilment resource. Do you really like your friends? Or do you just like the way friendship makes you feel?

Only if you define resource so broadly as to constitute anything, at which point the statement becomes “all relationships are based on things” ... which, like, yes of course

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I don’t really understand the rebate strategy here. They told Purdue to literally go to CVS and tell them “we are going to pay you a bonus for every overdose you cause?”

How does CVS interplay with the doctors who are doing the actual prescribing? I guess I don’t understand how a rebate change anything at CVS. Aren’t they just filling the prescription?

Re: McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for OxyContin Overdoses

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I don’t really understand the rebate strategy here. They told Purdue to literally go to CVS and tell them “we are going to pay you a bonus for every overdose you cause?” How does CVS interplay with the doctors who are doing the actual prescribing? I guess I don’t understand how a rebate change anything at CVS. Aren’t they just filling the prescription?

I am guessing that it was meant as legal/political/social cover? Hazard pay for the potential litigation they might face?

CVS put some limits on opioid prescriptions:

https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/21/cvs-opioid-prescription-...

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