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Thursday, October 21, 2004 7:26 AM

Bush's New Freedom Initiative Will Bankrupt Medicaid

 

 

Bush's New Freedom Initiative Will Bankrupt Medicaid

 

 

Suppressedhealth.com :Oct 20, 2004

In another unseemly money laundering scheme, the Bush Administration plans to

bankrupt Medicaid, enrich campaign-financier Eli Lilly and destroy American

children and families in the process. In its usual rubber-stamping routine,

Congress has voted to fund the " New Freedom Initiative " - the national version

of the The Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP).

 

Bush is endorsing a mental health program that will target children in schools

for mental health screenings. The commission claims that even though child

mental health prescriptions have increased 500% from 1999-2003, they aren't

getting enough " treatment " . The screenings will be mandatory and prescription

drug treatment will be too. That's not all this program does though, under the

new plan doctors can only prescribe the most Dangerous and expensive drugs on

the market.

 

The Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), an algorithm is like a menu at a

restaurant with drugs as the choices, if its not on the menu the doctor cannot

order the prescription. TMAP takes advantage of foster children,

institutionalized people, veterans and prisoners to further drug company profits

as well as robbing the American tax-payers. It forces state and Medicaid doctors

to prescribe super-expensive, dangerous medications to mental health patients.

 

By early 2001 the program bankrupted Texas's Medicaid system. At the rate TMAP

guidelines explode Medicaid expenses we will be paying an outlandish 3.7 billion

a year for schizophrenia medications alone, effectively bankrupting Medicaid

nationwide.

 

Here's an example of a Drug that doctors will be required to prescribe: Zyprexa

[made by Eli Lilly]

 

This is a new Medication for bi-polar disorder and it costs $6,000 more per

patient than older, safer drugs like Haldal according to Yale researchers,

Veterans Medical Hospital researchers and FDA trials. FDA Data also shows

Zyprexa to be one of he deadliest drugs ever approved, yet our war veterans and

children will be forced to use it while the rest of us pay for it. FDA trials

for Zyprexa show that 65% of patients dropped of the trial due to side effects

and during the 6-week trial 20 deaths occurred, 12 of them suicides. The FDA

approved Zyprexa ONLY for short-term treatment of bi-polar individuals.

 

TMAP mandates that Zyprexa be used for many different disorders for long term

use.

 

Note also that Zyprexa has such a profound affect on blood sugar levels that

some users can become diabetic in less than ten days. And the health

complications of diabetes is one of Medicaid's greatest costs.

 

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