CVS Rejects Opportunity to Distance From Partners That Support Health Care Rationing...
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CVS Rejects Opportunity to Distance From Partners That Support Health Care Rationing ([link removed])
** COVID-19 Response Reveals Strategy Of
Withholding Care From Those In Most Distress
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Washington, D.C. – CVS Health CEO Larry Merlo failed today to pull company support away from organizations that endorse the rationing of health care for society’s most vulnerable communities. He also refused to establish that CVS does not endorse such rationing as a normal feature of American health care. Such rationing has been ordered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the company’s virtual annual shareholder meeting, Scott Shepard ([link removed]) , Coordinator of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project ([link removed]) (FEP), asked Merlo:
At last year’s shareholder meeting, we asked you ([link removed]) about your partnership with the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), a nonprofit group that is working to establish “cost-effectiveness formulas” that would ration care by cutting it off from the most vulnerable.1 In recent weeks, when the COVID-19 scare was at its height, public officials gave instructions and made plans for exactly such triage ([link removed]) at the expense of those communities.2 Will you announce to shareholders and to the public today that you do not support making such “cost-effectiveness formulas” a regular facet of American health care, and commit to ending funding for any organizations or programs that embrace such an approach?
After the meeting, Shepard said:
Once a nation adopts a system of socialized healthcare ([link removed]) , rationing of healthcare is inevitable, and it inevitably becomes politicized. We want to avoid that string of outcomes, especially in light of increasing evidence that government-run medicine has – as usual – proven less reliable and effective ([link removed]) during this COVID-19 crisis than private-sector equivalents. Meanwhile, over- ([link removed]) and mis-regulation ([link removed]) and political decision-making have constricted vital supplies ([link removed])
even in the face of what for some time appeared to be a historic world emergency.
CVS plays a vital role in American healthcare provision as a major pharmacy with outlets throughout the country. It was therefore deeply disturbing to have discovered that CVS had partnered with an organization that favors not only rationing, but rationing against the most vulnerable amongst us.
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