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New idea floating around the Trump camp is deporting those that are on Medicaid to Mexico, then slashing medicaid budgets to pay for the wall.
 
palmab03 said:
New idea floating around the Trump camp is deporting those that are on Medicaid to Mexico, then slashing medicaid budgets to pay for the wall.
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That will never work. You have to build the wall first then deport the poors. These idiots can't even get this right.
 
palmab03 said:
Anyone who doesn't post straight out of the liberal agenda must be a little troll? So strange millions of americans vote against their self interests just to spite y'all.
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Hah, dude you are a troll because you troll every thread you post on, politics or not. No one would take you seriously if you posted your favorite ice cream flavor . You know why? Because you are a little troll .
 
Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray Announce Health Care Committee Hearings

This committee will hold hearings beginning the week of September 4th on the actions Congress should take to stabilize and strengthen the individual health insurance market so that Americans will be able to buy insurance at affordable prices in the year 2018. We will hear from state insurance commissioners, patients, governors, health care experts and insurance companies. Committee staff will begin this week working with all of our committee members to prepare for these hearings and discussions.
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oh hello
 
Serious question for the lawyers, maybe: could people shopping for insurance on the individual market in the next year sue the executive branch for withholding payments to insurance companies and ineffectively enforcing the individual mandate thus destabilizing the market and driving up costs? That is, the executive branch isn't following the law and that has caused a burden and harm on the individuals trying to use the markets.
 
Glad to see BCBSNC revising their ACA individual rate increase down to 14%. I guess they aren't planning on insuring many people on this new medication:

"Biogen announced the price: $125,000 a dose, or $750,000 for the first year. Fewer doses in following years drop the total annual cost to $375,000. The drug must be taken for life."

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540100976/drug-puts-a-750-000-price-tag-on-life
 
LCDeacon said:
Glad to see BCBSNC revising their ACA individual rate increase down to 14%. I guess they aren't planning on insuring many people on this new medication:

"Biogen announced the price: $125,000 a dose, or $750,000 for the first year. Fewer doses in following years drop the total annual cost to $375,000. The drug must be taken for life."

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540100976/drug-puts-a-750-000-price-tag-on-life
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The drug referenced in the article, Spinraza, is for a very rare condition called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). It appears to be a game changing drug in that kids with SMA treated with Spinraza gain strength rather than atrophy and die. It has been priced as the most expensive drug in the world.
 
Rafi said:
The drug referenced in the article, Spinraza, is for a very rare condition called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). It appears to be a game changing drug in that kids with SMA treated with Spinraza gain strength rather than atrophy and die. It has been priced as the most expensive drug in the world.
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Hi kids! We are going to save your life, but ruin it in the process by completely destroying any future you have because your parents are now broke! Have a great life!
 
AsesinoDeTortugas said:
Hi kids! We are going to save your life, but ruin it in the process by completely destroying any future you have because your parents are now broke! Have a great life!
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That's not how it works. Kids either get treated (they have insurance that covers it or the drug company provides drug for free) or they don't (because they don't have insurance). It's all extremely stressful for families, but the family doesn't pay for the med - it's too expensive, none could.
 
Rafi said:
That's not how it works. Kids either get treated (they have insurance that covers it or the drug company provides drug for free) or they don't (because they don't have insurance). It's all extremely stressful for families, but the family doesn't pay for the med - it's too expensive, none could.
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Gotcha. Thanks for the correction.

Somehow, this makes it even more egregious that Pubs were so desperate to take away health care from millions of Americans.
 
AsesinoDeTortugas said:
Gotcha. Thanks for the correction.

Somehow, this makes it even more egregious that Pubs were so desperate to take away health care from millions of Americans.
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Rafi said:
The drug referenced in the article, Spinraza, is for a very rare condition called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). It appears to be a game changing drug in that kids with SMA treated with Spinraza gain strength rather than atrophy and die. It has been priced as the most expensive drug in the world.
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it helps some kids gain some strength, some who take the drug still die (49% in the initial trial showed no improvement)

I mentioned this drug a few months ago, either in this thread or another

the discovery of Spinraza was made possible in part by the NIH using our tax dollars

if every SMA patient in the U.S. were treated with Spinraza for one year, we'd spend $7.4 billion to do it

Biogen is listed on the NASDAQ as BIIB
 
thatguy2016 said:
at least one group claims that Spinraza was discovered through funding from the NIH:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/busines...starts-year/AvFCPo8gB6dsyDawPcTOdL/story.html

"A consumer advocacy group alleges the organizations that discovered the drug — Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Ionis Pharmaceuticals — failed to properly file paperwork noting research was supported, in part, by federal funds. And this failure could allow the federal government to take title to the patents, should it determine there is a need to prevent a monopoly that impedes access to lower-cost versions."
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Here you go.
 
Pretty remarkable when you actually talk to the poors you work with about Obamacare about how much it matters to them. My staff insures her two kids for $28/mo. Our best 50 year old security guard disregards her employer's shitty insurance and gets obamacare for $200/mo. On the flip side it seems pretty much just fully subsidized healthcare, so just go all the way.

Stop taking on every SJW cause like trannys in bathrooms, get control of the government and throw up single payer already, dems.
 
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