dartsndeacs
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Serious question for the lawyers, .
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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."
Here you go.
Here you go.