Posted on 01/15/2017 5:52:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President-elect Donald Trump said in a weekend interview that he is nearing completion of a plan to replace President Obama’s signature health-care law with the goal of “insurance for everybody,” while also vowing to force drug companies to negotiate directly with the government on prices in Medicare and Medicaid.
Trump declined to reveal specifics in the telephone interview late Saturday with The Washington Post, but any proposals from the incoming president would almost certainly dominate the Republican effort to overhaul federal health policy as he prepares to work with his party’s congressional majorities.
Trump’s plan is likely to face questions from the right, following years of GOP opposition to further expansion of government involvement in the health-care system, and from those on the left, who see his ideas as disruptive to changes brought by the Affordable Care Act that have extended coverage to tens of millions of Americans.
In addition to his replacement plan for the ACA, also known as Obamacare, Trump said he will target pharmaceutical companies over drug prices and demand that they negotiate directly with Medicaid and Medicare.
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Tort Reform is the only answer at this point.
amen
In the USA if you get bit by a stray dog and need the rabies anti-venin that shot costs 10,000.00 .. and you may need more than a single shot.
A family I know had a run in with a rabid skunk last year and the town threw a fundraiser just to pay for the injections.
In other countries the shot is a few dollars. I suppose the cost difference is the legal liability the drug maker faces in the US. Very limited market for such a drug but unlimited liability exposure.
The same drug for animal use in the US is drastically cheaper... they sometimes drop treats from a plane in rural areas. The treats are laced with an oral form of the rabies anti-virus and skunks and cats and whatever eat them.
Veterinarians must take regular rabies injections... I wonder if they just give themselves a shot of the animal use form of the drug?
The $64,000,000,000.00 question? Who pays because we most certainly know who DOESN’T pay under Obamacare. That being millions of layabouts, deadbeats and slackers.
In other words, government run healthcare.
This is NOT what I voted for.
Remembering back to my college days, getting insurance wasn't that big of a deal. Insurance was cheap and part of the fee structure at the 4 year university I attended. It covered time between semesters and one could purchase coverage for a period of time after graduating or leaving early. Fast forward about 30 years, and that is still the case for the university in my town. The student health literature suggests making a close comparison between parent's coverage and university coverage especially if the student is in an out of network area. The cost of the student insurance is a bit below the cost of the minimum tax of $695.
Even if student insurance isn't offered at your son's school, catastrophic coverage probably isn't all that much more than what your paying to your plan. Although employer plans are forced to cover 26 year old's, they don't have to subsidize the costs.
Lol
The only way this is going to work is to have high risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions. Otherwise, it’s going to be the same situation we now have, in which young, healthy people are going to be pressured to subsidize the older people with more health problems. It’s a hard thing, but people with pre-existing conditions are going to have higher premiums than those who do not. You don’t expect a company to sell you home owner’s insurance at the regular price AFTER your house catches fire, do you?
“I tried to warn the trumpites that this was his position. I even posted a video of Trump making that very statement. And for telling the truth, I was suspended for a week.”
Yeah, I also got banned for a time, after somebody complained that I was not 100% supporting Trump. Even in my offending post, I had made it clear I was voting for Trump, and that I really liked many of his policies.
So, what happened?
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Don’t know ... I do know they took it to trial .. on the “mock jury” they separated us into 2 groups I was put with the logical thinkers (they didn’t want us to “pollute” the second pool) ,, the second group was your more typical jury pool ,, older people , people with no accomplishments , people that watch a lot of TV...
They probably got millions from the hospitals insurer if at the real trial they got “their” jury ,, in the mock trial the second pool didn’t ask any questions and assumed guilt without hesitation ,, went right to damages...
“While there have been one or two highly publicized stories about drug pricing, the cost of drugs comprises roughly 10% of overall health care costs. Can pricing be improved? Perhaps, but don’t kill R&D in the process.”
Yeah, pharma is an easy target. Trump keeps talking about making the drug companies “negotiate” prices and make them compete. But what I think Trump has yet to realize is that many of the best new drugs are novel, only produced by one company, so with whom is the maker of such a drug going to compete, when there is no equivalent drug?
What Trump is going to end up with is price controls. Also, what industry is going to be next, when Trump determines they are too profitable? Where is this going to lead?
Lets have insurance for US CITIZENS.
Thats all.
“Forcing big pharma to negotiate for set prices to Medicare/Medicaid shouldn’t be difficult. If they are locked out of all those customers by denying any payment for those drugs, their businesses won’t survive.”
I hope you realize that this will result in many people losing access to drugs that have been working well for them for years. Often, they have tried several drugs and are taking a particular medication that works best for them. Part of the beauty of our capitalist system is the plethora of innovative new drugs which have exclusive benefits.
I hope not. I want to give him support and the benefit of doubt for some ideas, but I would reject any sort of price controls.
And you're right about drugs. I'm hoping that Pence and others will educate him on patents, and the costs and time associated with drug development. If you take away the profit incentive, we'll have fewer and less-innovative drugs on the market.
I like the idea of getting the rest of the world to pay a little more in terms of their drug prices. We should not subsidize every other country. Of course, that sounds easier said than done.
Bad to take stronger antibiotics when not needed. Despite the price you’re building up a resistance to the new better antibiotic by taking cipro etc when you don’t need it. I am allergic to penicillin. But even there, there is inexpensive drugs that are not penicillin based
I worked in pharmaceuticals for thirty years. We didn’t make the kind of compounded drugs per se, but biologics made from human blood. Things like Intravenous immune globulin. I had to take this myself. I had a few infusions for the CIDP I developed(and still have). It did not help. The infusion lab charged the insurance company like $16000 per infusion. Not cheap. (Though just because something is billed for a certain price doesn’t mean the insurance companies pay that much)
I really don’t know what the answer is to fix this mess.
Cancer research is starting to show much more promise these days. The treatment for mine has been the same for 40 years. It works, but not everyone survives the treatment due to different factors. After a donor stem cell transplant, I am taking a maintenance chemo under clinical trial. It works by suppressing a particular gene that would be the culprit to usher in a relapse. So far 1.5 yrs post transplant, I’m holding
But, you can imagine the costs for. SCT? I’ve never used Medicaid. Always thru employment. Should I relapse, the process begins again wfollowed by a 2nd transplant. Yes, very expensive for the insurance companies.
Does anyone believe a Medicaid patient should be rejected for the process a 2nd time? Should ins companies say no to everyone needing a 2nd SCT? Which btw, most don’t make it to a 2nd transplant should they relapse. Once relapse happens, most are gone within a month. (AML)
Government by the lawyers for the lawyers...
That’s true. My sons school does not offer it. And under my financial situation of being out of work, It’s prudent for me to cover him than to pay for Doctor bills.
Ok , I thought you were referring to the entire HI program as welfare.
Free stuff until it runs out.
vs.
Stuff you have to work for but you can have as much as you want.
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