Alzheimer’s drugs delivered to members of Congress

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Pharmacy is said to have delivered Alzheimer’s drugs to members of Congress
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By Christina Prignano
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A D.C. pharmacist says his pharmacy has filled prescriptions for “pretty serious health problems” for members of Congress, including drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new interview published in STAT news.
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The pharmacist, Grubb’s Pharmacy owner Mike Kim, made the disclosure as part of a larger story into a perk afforded to lawmakers: Drugs from a community pharmacy are delivered to the office of the Attending Physician, allowing members of Congress to avoid trips to the store.
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“At first it’s cool, and then you realize, I’m filling some drugs that are for some pretty serious health problems as well. And these are the people that are running the country,” Kim told STAT. “It makes you kind of sit back and say, ‘Wow, they’re making the highest laws of the land and they might not even remember what happened yesterday.’”
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Those health problems have included things like Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes, Kim said, according to STAT.
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There has been a renewed interest in recent months about how lawmakers access health care as the Republican-controlled Congress has worked to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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STAT: Pharmacy hand-delivers drugs to Congress, a perk for the powerful.
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For at least two decades, pharmaceutical drugs have been taken by carload to the Capitol — an arrangement so under the radar that few are aware of it.
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Members of Congress and their staffs were required by the Affordable Care Act to purchase health insurance from an exchange set up under the law, according to CNN.
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But STAT notes that lawmakers pay just $600 a year for access to the Office of the Attending Physician, and by extension, the deliveries made by Kim’s pharmacy.
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My Thoughts:
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When all of this news about a secret Dept. in Congress was paying off the accusers of sexual attacks came out, a newsman reported on the news that he started asking around if there were additional places that has not been told about to the American public and he found out that there is a Pharmacy where all of the Congressmen & women can obtain their prescriptions delivered to them for a small free.
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Upon finding that out he started asking about certain kinds of prescriptions that they able to receive, like Viagra for erectile problems and one of the items he was informed about was they also issue to them were medications for Dementia / Alzheimer’s.
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Now I don’t know about all of you, but this aspect of issuing them medications for Dementia / Alzheimer’s kind of worries me and we’ve all witnessed various congressional committees on TV that prove that there are a whole lot of them that need and require these drugs for Dementia / Alzheimer’s.

[SHMIV]

Oh, this sort of thing is more than just worrying. This probably falls under the category of "terrifying".

It bothers me that John McCain still holds office. He should have stepped down, as soon as he was diagnosed with that brain tumor. And, since he hasn't, he should have been forced out.

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