These backroom deals between the administration and Big Pharma will not meaningfully lower drug prices for my patients, especially without health insurance or when their limited, fixed incomes are having to pay more to keep their insurance or for food for them and their families.

for pharma to opt into to provide drugs at "most-favored nation" prices to Medicaid patients when we're on the precipice of over 10 million losing this coverage. I said it last week before @sanders.senate.gov and Senate HELP and I'll say it again...

be kicked off their insurance or those who just can't pay for their health insurance anymore because of premium price hikes, having GLP-1s and a handful of other expensive drugs listed on TrumpRx for a price they still cannot pay just doesn't matter. Nor does a voluntary model...

We just cannot keep looking at our patients' health policy by policy - all of these are connected and the most vulnerable - the elderly, the poor, those living paycheck to check - are the ones who are and will be harmed the most. For my patients on Medicaid who are about to...

those who told me they're trying to figure out whether or not they could still afford their insurance after they got notices about the premium increases. Not to mention the many others who have expressed fear before about their Medicaid coverage being cut in the near future...

Here's how @reshmagar.bsky.social and I put the same sentiment in the LA Times this weekend: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor....
But that's one difficulty with this FDA, a disconnect between what they say and what they seem willing to do.

Really also makes you wonder what happened during the journal peer-review process that allowed publication of these funded studies with obvious flaws: "Wyatt Decker, UnitedHealth’s chief physician...said in a statement that its studies were rigorously examined by peer reviewers." #MedSky

This team comprised of @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social Alissa Chen, @keckschoolusc.bsky.social Yixuan Liang, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social Kasia Lipska, and CRRIT Co-Directors @jsross119.bsky.social and @reshmagar.bsky.social

Full analysis: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In a recently published article in @bmj.com, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social student Tiffany Jiang, CRRIT Co-Director @reshmagar.bsky.social & Joshua Skydel (Yale Rheumatology) investigate how eliminating these requirements can increase access to biosimilars (2/2)

🔗 www.bmj.com/content/390/...

One of the experts on this panel: "Another panelist, psychologist Roger McFillin — who hosts a podcast that challenges conventional mental health advice — suggested that depression wasn’t an illness but rather a product of 'women just naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely.'" #MedSky