auditor0007
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What Does The Affordable Care Act Mean For People With Cancer?
Since the ACA was signed into law on March 23, key provisions have gone into effect that are giving seniors, children and the uninsured better access to quality, affordable health care. These provisions, as well as those that will be implemented over the next few years, will meaningfully improve the health care system for people touched by cancer. The new law will ensure that people with cancer will no longer:
Be denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions;
Be charged more for their coverage because of health status;
Be faced with annual or lifetime coverage limits that cause a sudden termination of care; or
Have to choose between saving their life or their life savings because they lack access to affordable coverage.
People with cancer will be denied treatment with drugs that are deemed too expensive by the ACA bureaucracy. It will also take away the financial rewards to drug companies for developing new cancer drugs.
Give up all hope ye who enter here.
As usual, you are full of shit. Have you EVER in your sad little life questioned your beloved 'private' sector?
WHY should America citizens pay twice as much as the rest of the world for the EXACT same drug? This issue came to the forefront during the Medicare D debate when Bush FORBID the government from negotiating directly with drug companies for lower prices.
Some states set up websites to allow citizens to buy the EXACT same drugs from Canada.
Let the rest of the world help pay for R&D.
By agreeing to pay whatever the pharmaceutical companies charge for drugs, it is allowing them to offer the same drugs to entire countries for a fraction of what we pay. We are subsidizing the rest of the world because nobody wants to stand up to Big Pharma. This would all change if we forced their hand by demanding to pay the same amount for the same drugs as countries such as Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australian, Japan, and so on. In the end, Big Pharma would be forced to lower our cost and raise the cost for everyone else. They would still make the same amount of money, but Americans would no longer be taking it up the ass.