I take from it he will create a high risk pool for the chronically incurable and disabled who have constant medical needs. Hopefully that will mean reform of DUMBO’s DEA pain med laws. As pain med is all that some can function on. It is criminal to restrict pain med for cancer patients or Wounded Service Members. There are 1.33 Million and many more who have no health coverage in this pool.
And that is what they are doing. Making you go to useless Pain Management and peeing in a bottle every month. And that is NOT CHEAP. With good ins and a $300 co-pay times 12 gets real expensive quick.
Even my seizure drug is on the list of restricted drugs. And I take the smallest dose of it. I’m limited to a 30 day fill with 2 refills, I’ll have to take the drug the rest of my life, and going to the doc every 3 months is a pain in the Tush. At least I’m not forced into Pain Management like others are. Imagine your 80 and having to pee in a bottle every month under supervision, DISGUSTING.
I read a unit of Saline is now $800. It is salt, electrolytes and sterile water, maybe $10 tops to produce. http://www.thedailysheeple.com/why-are-american-hospitals-charging-up-to-800-for-a-1-bag-of-saltwater_022014
Blood cost https://www.sabm.org/faq/lab/458
--and insurers can bid. Anything else is a fantasy; the current everyone pays for everyone doesn't work, either posing as 'industry minimum' or presented as (what it honestly is) charity.