
What We're Reading: Medicaid Contract Scrutiny; Questions About Heart Trial; Michigan Pharmacist Complaint
Health experts are questioning the practice of allowing private insurers to manage public Medicaid contracts; doctors and scientists are urging a halt to a taxpayer-funded, $63 million medical trial based in part on the work of prominent Harvard Medical School scientist Piero Anversa; a Michigan pharmacist who refused to refill a woman’s miscarriage medication because he claimed he was a “good Catholic male” is no longer with Meijer.
Public Medicaid Contracts in Private Hands Raises Alarms
Heart Trial Linked to Controversial Harvard Medical School Researcher Questioned
Health experts are questioning the practice of allowing private insurers to manage public Medicaid contracts, due to a paucity of evidence that these contractors improve patient care or save government money,
Michigan Pharmacist Who Refused to Fill Woman's Prescription During Miscarriage No Longer With Firm
A Michigan pharmacist who refused to refill a woman’s miscarriage medication because he claimed he was a “good Catholic male” is no longer with Meijer,
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