Doctors have known for more than a year now that the antiparasitic drug ivermectin isn’t effective against Covid. The FDA has explicitly warned against prescribing it to Covid patients, but many physicians still do—and public and private insurance companies are paying for it. A study published earlier this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that this drug has cost insurance companies more than a hundred million dollars. “People are really annoyed with insurance, that they don’t cover things that are evidence-based,” says lead author Kao-Ping Chua, an assistant professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. “And at the same time, now here’s an example of insurance covering something that’s not evidence-based.”
Last August, Chua noticed an alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that noted a dramatic increase in ivermectin prescriptions during the pandemic. Before 2020, ivermectin prescription rates from US doctors were low—just a few thousand a week for parasitic diseases like scabies. Yet by the week […]
Stephan, your mind and report has been colonized by the fraudulent and criminal science of big pharma. This article is a pure propaganda piece. If she wrote the truth, she would lose her job. Why don’t you do an article on why the FDA has asked the courts for permission to hide the Phizer safety and efficacy data from the American people for 75 years. Why don’t you write an article on why the FDA and CDC can no longer be trusted as unbiased agencies working for the safety of our citizens. Why don’t you write an article on regulatory capture and how it effects all of us?. It appears you fear the consequences of truth on this issue and have lost your integrity. Prove me wrong, please.
Robert —
I’m so sorry, you really need to stop reading, watching, or listening to the anti-vaxxer anti-science crap. It has warped your brain.
The article to which you refer is based on economic research, and if you can prove that the facts it cites are incorrect please send me those sources. Everything I publish about Covid is backed up by peer-reviewed research published in the leading medical, scientific, and economic journals.
If you read me regularly you should know I have also published many reports critiquing the Pharmaceutical corporations that dominate the American Illness Profit industry. However, the business model of the pharmaceutical industry is not the scientific research, much of which is done at hospitals and universities.