🧵Re baby formula #shortages:
@PressSec us pediatricians cannot conjure up baby formula.
We will do whatever we can to help our patients but you and @POTUS need to own the colossal supply chain mess that now threatens babies.
@PressSec @POTUS @RogerMarshallMD @RepKimSchrier @MartyMakary @Rosemary100 @ab_peds @MedscapePeds 🧵While hospitals have been better at purchasing and distributing less formula, in an effort to encourage #breastfeeding , they still distribute a LOT of formula . Love to know how much @ahahospitals
🧵As for how baby formula and other supplies get into nursing homes, learn about #GPO, medtwitter !
GPO control supplies of the hospitals in 🇺🇸 including masks, drugs, medical devices, solutions, and.....
@CourierTimes @SenBlumenthal @ChuckGrassley
theintell.com/story/opinion/…
🧵HealthTrust is a GPO owned by HCA... a big hospital conglomerate.
They buy in bulk through GPO.
We should be asking these hospitals how much supply they have @PressSec and @POTUS
From: healthtrustpg.com/thesource/clin…
🧵Perhaps if #GPO middlemen were not allowed to legally collect #kickbacks then maybe we would not have almost all formula coming from 3 companies . But these companies can pay to make most of the hospital formula, then dominate the market.
🧵big baby formula maker Abbott is The pediatric supplier of the year for #kickback collecting #GPO @VizientInc
Things that make you go hmmmm...
newsroom.vizientinc.com/vizient-inc.-r…
🧵I am glad Kansas pediatricians are sounding the alarm bell of the danger of making homemade formula, or watering down formula.
I recall in residency, babies presenting with seizures from low sodium from watered down formula kansascity.com/news/nation-wo… @RogerMarshallMD @RepMann
🧵Re the mess of the supply chain and #babyformula :
Physicians feel a LOT like the characters in MASH... our profession is far from home, dealing with shortages, patients keep coming.
You figure out YOUR part @PressSec @POTUS
Supply chain is ON YOU and the corporate suits
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