Health Care Costs In America

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Thank goodness I'm a Vet. The care has been good to excellent. I've had surgery (prostate) and have a hyper thyroid condition and type 2 diabetes.
I have no need to go outside the VA for care but can if needed. I only carry Medicare type "B" in case I need it one day and I get a partial refund every month from a program called Medicare giveback, because I don't use it.
 
After you're done with your No Kings protest, you might want to read the article below.

Thrump has been putting the squeeze on drug companies to lower costs - https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-she...-favored-nation-pricing-to-american-patients/

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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces First Deal to Bring Most-Favored-Nation Pricing to American Patients

ADVANCING MOST-FAVORED-NATION PRICING: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the first agreement with a major pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, to
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Republicans are barreling toward an Obamacare subsidy cliff — with no unified plan

Republicans are barreling toward the upcoming Obamacare enrollment period without a unified plan to address the sticker shock that millions of Americans are likely to experience due to the expiration of key federal subsidies.

The lack of direction comes from the top, with President Donald Trump not providing clear guidance to his party on how he wants to deal with the expiring subsidies that could result in dramatic out-of-pocket price hikes for enrollees.

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Philly vs. the PBM Mob

Fifty-five years after Congress passed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act to fight the Mafia, Philadelphia is using it against Big Insurance.
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What the End of Obamacare Subsidies Could Mean for Your Health Coverage​

The Senate approved a deal on Monday evening to end the longest government shutdown in United States history after eight Democrats abandoned their party's key demand on healthcare coverage to vote with Republicans.

The Senate voted 60-40 to fund the government through Jan. 30. The continuing resolution now heads to the House of Representatives, which is expected to take it up on Wednesday.

At the center of the impasse has been the Republican Party’s refusal to concede to a Democratic Party demand to extend federal subsidies for people buying healthcare on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace.

These tax credits were added during the pandemic, extended by Congress through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, and are set to expire at the end of this year.

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The White House knows it needs to act on health care affordability. Here’s what’s on the table.​

President Donald Trump’s Domestic Policy Council and senior health officials have been meeting privately for preliminary conversations on how to address the expiration of health insurance tax credits, according to a White House official and another person familiar with the talks.

Conversations about a White House alternative to Affordable Care Act subsidies, which will expire at year’s end, are in the “early ideation phase,” said a third person familiar with the talks. Like others, these people were granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. Options that administration officials have publicly teased in recent days include giving money directly to Americans to cover health expenses and subsidizing out-of-pocket costs for low-income people enrolled in the ACA.

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Cheaper medicines, free beach trips: U.S. health plans tap prescriptions that feds say are illegal​

Every step is a struggle for Bruce Zimmerman, whose health has been deteriorating since he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis eight years ago.

In 2019, Zimmerman said, his then-employer offered him an opportunity that sounded irresistible: He and his wife, Becky, could take all-expense-paid trips to the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas to retrieve the medication he needed, Avonex, a drug made by Biogen that currently retails in the U.S. for $2,159 per weekly dose. Through Florida-based PriceMDs, which paid for the couple’s travel, Zimmerman’s Avonex would be free of charge.

PriceMDs is part of a growing class of businesses called alternative funding programs, or AFPs, which promise to connect patients with more-affordable options for accessing specialty medications that often come at very high costs. AFPs contract with employer-sponsored health plans to offer coverage on specialty drugs.

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