I would not expect all of it, but my savings on the 2 brand name drugs I take would feel like 50 Billion (with a B)
I hope it happens soon. Dec 1 I go on Medicare and will be in the donut hole within 3 months. I am so scared. I have a supplemental plan but I’m still screwed.
I was accutulay looking forward to not be paying 500 every month for health insurance for a crappy plan.
I want to keep my crappy plan.
Between Rx drugs, insurance companies not competing across state lines, restrictions by the FDA on bringing things in... It is OBVIOUS that in the land of free markets, capitalism and of course the world’s greatest health care system that there is heavy influence by a few very powerful players when it comes to the verbiage of government regulations and the enforcement of them.
In America, when you go to the hospital, you’re signing a blank check, even of you have insurance. Not even the cliche used car dealer is allowed to pull the crap they do here when you seek medical care: 10 different bills, bills that you can’t decipher what they are for, out of network services, bills 6 months later... What a joke.
And all of that for a health care system that is government and insurance run, what’s the consumer only has the “illusion” of choice. The average consumer even with insurance does not have the financial resources to afford anything other than the standard of care. Doctors will not advice or even inform of alternatives in care and the consumer doesn’t really know the difference in most cases. Doctors won’t administer anything other than the standard of care also because of liability. Insurances won’t pay for anything other than the standard of care. And who defines the standard of care?
This country has a crappy health care system that is sold to the consumer really well, but the outcomes tell a different story. You have little choice, get jerked around and ripped off, and when it comes to pneumonia, corona virus, average life expectancy, infant death mortality... we are just mediocre.
The article in all its words says nothing directly about any Trump action. You would think that would be the first thing the author mentioned.