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She is very accurate. The Affordable Care Act worked on the same faulty assumption that “insurers” would eat the cost of all the new benefits…not the insured. The Inflation Reduction Act seems to be doing the same thing to Medicare Part D with the RX price controls Biden brags about. And CMS is desperately trying to cover up what it will do to old folks paying Part D premiums…something that would be apparent in October, before the election. If they succeed it’s going to blow up in three years instead. Why does NO ONE ever consider negotiating with pharma? Especially when we pay more than any other country, right? We do have leverage but Americans keep getting punched in the gut every time the government wants to give something for “nothing.”
She is very accurate. The Affordable Care Act worked on the same faulty assumption that “insurers” would eat the cost of all the new benefits…not the insured. The Inflation Reduction Act seems to be doing the same thing to Medicare Part D with the RX price controls Biden brags about. And CMS is desperately trying to cover up what it will do to old folks paying Part D premiums…something that would be apparent in October, before the election. If they succeed it’s going to blow up in three years instead. Why does NO ONE ever consider negotiating with pharma? Especially when we pay more than any other country, right? We do have leverage but Americans keep getting punched in the gut every time the government wants to give something for “nothing.”