WHen I see cases, I realize that we in America have no idea what medicine or medical treatment actually cost.
Oh great. Here come the dozens of whitehouse.gov and justice.gov posts for the day... :(
Oh, yes, I do, at least. My doctors and I have had many illuminating conversations about the subject, and they're as fed up with the pharma industry as the patients are. My wife and I both require multiple meds and cross swords with the insurance companies all the time. She has MS and it took almost a full year for her to get put on medication after she was diagnosed - the drug manufacturer and the insurance company got in a dogfight over who would pay what percentage for a drug which, at retail value, was over $2,000 a month. That is obscene. One of my meds (a non-insulin diabetic injection - I'm allergic to the preservative they use in insulin suspensions and can't inject it long term) had it's coverage dropped and the price shot up 400% overnight, so, I have to sit down with my PCP in the next couple of weeks and come up with an alternative. As my mother, who was a hospital RN for 42 years has said, it's all one big racket. Not to dive too much deeper into the legal narrative, I'd like to see a plain-spoken list of exactly who benefits and what drugs this will affect.
“The second Order will allow State plans for safe importation of certain drugs, authorize the re-importation of insulin products made in the United States, and create a pathway for widespread use of personal importation waivers at authorized pharmacies in the United States.”
A large variety of manufactures’ own drugs will be speeding right back into the US to compete against the locally high prices. If Canada gets the brand name drug at $18, it will come back to us around $25 to compete with the $250 cost we normally have.
Drug companies will see they are massively screwed and will have to raise prices everywhere—not just on us in the US.
Government just needs to get out of the business of healthcare. Under Bush 2 they passed the prescription drug bill and overnight drugs costs soared for no other reason than government was now footing the bill. Its basically a way for corporations to steal with gov consent.
I do applaud the move since this does something but the repealing of that bill would do a lot more across the board.
About the only thing Sleepy Jeff Sessions did was prosecute Medicaid fraud and drug companies. Yeah, he did ok on MS-13.
But going back to 2018, Richard Baris was telling me the GOP was in trouble because of their failure to fix Obamacare. This could go a long way in winning back a lot of those voters.