Re:The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is...
by PaulHoule on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @10:33AM
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"I hope they don't just focus on insulin." is a great point.
One way we have gotten into this mess is going at healthcare in a piecemeal fashion. First we have a program for the seniors, then for the veterans, then for the poor, then we get COBRA and "you can keep your children on your employer's plan until they are 26", then there is Obamacare which can be good sometimes and bad other times.
(When I am between jobs I have a $20 premium and a $15 copay. When I am making moderate money I my premium is similar, but I get high deductible "junk insurance" where I pay more like $150 for a visit. I could buy low deductible insurance but the price difference is about the same the deductible)
Each time they add a new piece to the system, you are left with the remainder that is more intractable. If they do something special for insulin that will somehow cost the government a lot of money and then next time it will be some other drug.
If they really wanted to save money they would start dismantling parts of the system. For instance, eliminate the tax deduction for employer insurance and herd everybody onto Obamacare. "Medicare for all", something like that.
One way we have gotten into this mess is going at healthcare in a piecemeal fashion. First we have a program for the seniors, then for the veterans, then for the poor, then we get COBRA and "you can keep your children on your employer's plan until they are 26", then there is Obamacare which can be good sometimes and bad other times.
(When I am between jobs I have a $20 premium and a $15 copay. When I am making moderate money I my premium is similar, but I get high deductible "junk insurance" where I pay more like $150 for a visit. I could buy low deductible insurance but the price difference is about the same the deductible)
Each time they add a new piece to the system, you are left with the remainder that is more intractable. If they do something special for insulin that will somehow cost the government a lot of money and then next time it will be some other drug.
If they really wanted to save money they would start dismantling parts of the system. For instance, eliminate the tax deduction for employer insurance and herd everybody onto Obamacare. "Medicare for all", something like that.