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The Trump Administration has made a big hullabaloo about the concept of doctors being newly paid to deprescribe medication — specifically, antidepressants. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making it sound like doctors have only been paid to prescribe medications before, but now — shock, gasp — they will be prescribed to deprescribe them too! If doctors only got paid per prescription, this would, indeed, be big news. However, like with most of the wretched effluence oozing from the White House right now, this is nothing but a lie. Doctors have always been paid to prescribe and deprescribe medications — it’s called treating patients.
Doctors Don’t Get Paid to Prescribe
Back in the bad old days of decades past,…