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Re:Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children wit... by mrguyorama on Friday November 21, 2025 @05:26PM (#46009759)
I'm big on medications for brain stuff but uh yes, in the US, doctors get lots of kickbacks for prescribing drugs.

Usually this takes the form of "I'm prescribing you with <Brand> instead of generic" or "I'm prescribing you this specific drug from this class of drug"

https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/

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Re:Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children wit... by ksenzee on Friday November 21, 2025 @08:50PM (#46011319)
Okay, but nobody is paying doctors to prescribe medications like sertraline and fluoxetine that have been generic for years and are cheap as dirt.
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Re:Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children wit... by dragonwriter on Friday November 21, 2025 @08:55PM (#46011353)
> doctors get lots of kickbacks for prescribing drugs.

From your own source: "In 2024: $172 or more in general payments have been received by half of physicians."

Even if all of those payments count as kickbacks, a median of $172 in a year (significantly less than 0.1% of the median physician's annual pay) is not "a lot of kickbacks".

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