This One Drug Will Make Medicare Premiums Skyrocket

[Donkees]

Dec 16, 2021

Seniors will pay record-high Medicare premiums in 2022 after the FDA approved an Alzheimer’s drug that costs $56,000 over the objections of medical advisors. There is zero evidence that the drug cures or reverses Alzheimer's. Three FDA administrators quit in protest.

Biden must act stop this outrageous increase in Medicare premiums.

[NewHendoLib]

1. it already did. we got our part B bills - up 20.00 per month just for this one drug

ridiculous

so if they reverse it, they'd have to offer refunds to make it fair.

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[Hoyt]

3. Three FDA docs quitting because they didn't get their way is not surprising.

I’m hopeful the drug, and treatments that may come about, will work.

[LiberalArkie]

4. The question must be asked - Who are the stock holders of this company?

[rockfordfile]

5. Corruption

[George II]

6. How can Biden act? What should he do?

[dhol82]

7. Yeah, how come this drug, that is questionable at best, got the go ahead?

Sucks big time.

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. Biden has yet to appoint someone to head the FDA.

The acting commissioner is Janet Woodcock. Why did she let this happen? Anyone know the details?

[dhol82]

10. Well, this is interesting:

https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/janet-woodcock-reportedly-out-race-permanent-fda-commissioner

[Elwood P Dowd]

13. Yes, that is.......

[Donkees]

11. 'At the eleventh hour, Woodcock shunned by Biden as Califf becomes FDA commish nominee'

Nov 12, 2021

President Joe Biden has officially nominated former Obama administration pick Robert Califf, M.D., as his new FDA commissioner.

This comes right before Nov. 15, the final day Janet Woodcock, M.D., the acting commissioner, can stay in the interim role, and 10 months after Biden’s inauguration.

An FDA veteran, Woodcock has two stints heading up the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research—from 2008 until now and from 1994 to 2005. In between, she served in the FDA commissioner’s office. Most recently she served as part of Operation Warp Speed, overseeing COVID-19 therapy development.

She had initially been seen as a favorite to take the top job on a full-time basis but appeared to lose confidence from some key Washington insiders after the approval of Biogen’s expensive and controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhlem.

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/at-eleventh-hour-woodcock-shunned-by-biden-as-recycled-pick-califf-becomes-fda-commis

[appalachiablue]

9. First Human Trial of Alzheimer's Nasal Vaccine To Prevent & Slow Disease:

- 'First human trial of Alzheimer's disease nasal vaccine to begin at Boston hospital, CBS News, Nov. 16, 21

Brigham and Women's Hospital will test the safety and efficacy of a nasal vaccine aimed at preventing and slowing Alzheimer's disease, the Boston hospital announced Tuesday. The start of the small, Phase I clinical trial comes after nearly 20 years of research led by Howard L. Weiner, MD, co-director of the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at the hospital.

The trial will include 16 participants between the ages of 60 and 85, all with early symptomatic Alzheimer's but otherwise generally healthy. They will receive two doses of the vaccine one week apart, the hospital said in a press release. The participants will enroll from the Ann Romney Center.

A Phase I clinical trial is designed to establish the safety and dosage for a potential new medication. If it goes well, a much larger trial would be needed to test its effectiveness.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alzheimers-disease-nasal-vaccine-human-trial-to-begin-at-boston-hospital/

[Donkees]

12. This is interesting

[appalachiablue]

14. Experts have been researching this 20+ yrs, we'll see..

[Ferrets are Cool]

15. This would have cost a lot less.

https://www.aarp.org/health/dementia/info-2021/viagra-for-alzheimers.html

[uponit7771]

16. Sounds like Oxycotin all over again

[Skittles]

17. why don't they question how much the drug costs

ridiculous

[sarcasmo]

18. Greedy bastards, this reminds me of Pharma Bro.