Horse Play With Big Pharma: Kansas Bill Demands Ivermectin & More

Actually, we're all in favor of pushing drug dealers around . . . So don't be fooled by our cheeky post title fun.

In fact . . . We welcome more POWER TO PATIENTS as the current cultural shift might benefit people who need medical help in a great many other regards.

Here are the basics . . .

For the first time, members of the Kansas Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee reviewed a bill that would require a pharmacist to fill prescriptions for certain drugs, even if the pharmacist doesn't think it will work.

Leaders in the University of Kansas Health System are criticizing the legislation saying that studies that did show benefits for the drugs have been retracted for falsifying data. Authors of those studies have also been punished, according to Dr. Dana Hawkinson, infectious disease specialist for the University of Kansas Health System.

But the bill before elected officials has everything to do with the anti-parasite drugs popularized on social media and in pop culture: Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com news link . . .

Kansas bill would require prescriptions be filled for certain drugs to treat COVID

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - COVID-19 case counts are falling regionally but the discussion on how it should be treated continues at the Kansas statehouse. On Tuesday, for the first time, members of the Kansas Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee reviewed a bill that would require a pharmacist to fill prescriptions for certain drugs, even if the pharmacist doesn't think it will work.