Obamanation care to cause Huge Drug Cost Gap

[Nova78]

Get Ready for Huge Drug Cost Gap in Obamacare

Cancer patients could face high costs for medications under President Barack Obama's health care law, industry analysts and advocates warn.

Where you live could make a huge difference in what you'll pay.


To try to keep premiums low, some states are allowing insurers to charge patients a hefty share of the cost for expensive medications used to treat cancer, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and other life-altering chronic diseases.


Such "specialty drugs" can cost thousands of dollars a month, and in California, patients would pay up to 30 percent of the cost. For one widely used cancer drug, Gleevec, the patient could pay more than $2,000 for a month's supply, says the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Time to flush that hug turd called Obamacare down the toilet.....

 

[Greenbeard]

Although the money for covering uninsured Americans is coming from Washington, the heath care law gives states broad leeway to tailor benefits, and the local approach can also allow disparities to emerge.

Should benefit design be nationalized instead of leaving it in state hands?

 

[JakeStarkey]

If the states kow tow to pharma, they will make another reason for nationalization.

 

[lynn63]

That is interesting since the pharm companies just came out with a whole new set of drugs to fight cancer recently.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Since pharma is committed to making money, the industry will adapt to the market and its conditions, and will keep developing products.