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Publication type: Journal Article

Pfizer and Humana join forces on new Medicare Health Support Program.
Dis Manag Advis 2006 Jan; 12:(1):8-9,


Abstract:

Two health care giants join forces to offer ground-breaking Medicare program. The seventh of eight pioneering Medicare Health Support programs is now underway with the launch of Green Ribbon Health, a Tampa, FL-based company formed by Pfizer and Humana in an attempt to take advantage of the depth of DM experience that each has to offer in caring for a highly complex Medicare population.

Keywords:
Cooperative Behavior* Disease Management Drug Industry* Health Maintenance Organizations* Humans Medicare* Nurse-Patient Relations Pilot Projects* United States

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909