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Medicare Prescription Drugs: A Case Study in Government Failure – Commentary
How does Medicare stand up against private, free-market coverage with similar benefits? Let’s examine drug coverage, since Congress just acted on Medicare’s prescription drug benefits.
Medicare Advantage Plans Deliver Better Value – Study
“In addition to the cost comparison, it is worth noting that seniors save $2,000 or so by not having to buy Medigap insurance. And they get much better drug coverage.”
Medicare Prescription Drug Price Controls Come with Strings Attached
The IRA’s supporters point to the savings to seniors resulting from the new law’s Medicare provisions, but many of these won’t take effect for years and will come with trade-offs.
Congress Caps Medicare Insulin Cost
“Price controls may be popular with those who benefit from artificially low prices but will ensure diabetic patients decades from now will not benefit from new advancements in technology because there will be no incentive to invest in newer insulins.”
A Better Way to Address Medicare Rx Price Complaints – Commentary
Give seniors better access to plans that integrate pharmaceutical and medical coverage. Medicare is the only place in our health care system where plans that sell drug coverage are separate from plans that cover medical expenses.
Congress Considers Medicare Telehealth Extension
"Legislators should wait for [more] information before blanket extension, especially given that coverage in Medicare would cost at least $25 billion over a decade."
Democrats Target Medicare Drug Spending to Shore Up Obamacare
There are many parts to the plan but essentially drug manufacturers would be hit with a 95 percent excise tax on their total sales if they fail to lower drug prices to the satisfaction of federal regulators.
Medicare Advantage – Are America’s Best Health Plans Being Unfairly Attacked? – Commentary
Medicare Advantage is the only place in the entire health care system where health plans specialize in various chronic conditions and advertise to attract patients with those conditions.
Medicare Limits Payment for New Alzheimer’s Drug
“Medicare pays for tons of medical care that does not work, which serves only to injure Peter and enrich Paul’s health care providers, without benefiting Paul at all.”
Sanders Won’t Give Up on Medicare for All – Commentary
"He should give it a rest. His single-payer proposal hasn’t gotten any better with time. Witnesses and Republican senators tore it to shreds in a hearing last week."
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