Healthcare & Health Insurance Catch-All | GOP seeking a plan
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lawtig02
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Seems to me that’s the point. This thing is a gambit by the pharmaceutical donors to get MAGA to buy more expensive brands rather than less expensive generics.
Mulberry Heel
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Yep. They're counting on the endless ignorance and gullibility of his base to just say "Wow! Look at this great new website our glorious president has created just for us - Obama and Biden never did anything like this!" and they'll go broke buying ridiculously expensive name-brand drugs that they could get generic at a fraction of what they're paying on TrumpRx.
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In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A
In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A | Fortune
The CBO estimates that benefit reductions would start at 8% in 2040 and steadily climb to a 10% cut by 2056.
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I'm sure that I will not agree with much from his plan, but I do agree that people need to actually understand the prices and the game, so they will push for actual reform.
That's a reason that I felt the ACA subsidies hid the real cost of medical care and didn't help solve the issue.
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“…Florida remains the only state in the country the FDA has authorized to import prescription drugs. But the state’s effort has stalled in part because it failed to win over the Canadian drug industry, which has consistently warned the Canadian government that the U.S. program jeopardized the country’s drug supply.
Florida’s Canadian drug program was expected to save the state close to $180 million by taking advantage of the country’s pricing structure for prescription drugs. And the governor held up the program as a model for other states to follow.
The Food and Drug Administration granted Florida final authorization to import Canadian prescription drugs more than two years ago with a promise from the state that it would begin importing drugs in a matter of months. But AHCA subsequently failed to launch its program, amid years of fierce headwinds brought by the Canadian market.
… DeSantis spokesperson Molly Best said in an email that the state’s vendor is still in negotiations with Canadian manufacturers and distribution partners. A meeting scheduled by the FDA for November was canceled due to the federal government shutdown last year, and it was rescheduled for March. Until then, the FDA has continued the state’s authorization to operate the program until May.…”
If we hate Canada's socialist medical plan so much, why do we try to use it to lower our prescription prices?
Why not actually follow their model and make it work here? Instead of trying to take advantage of the neighbor that drump has alienated?