How will ObamaCare impact prescription drug coverage?

www.FoxNews.com ^ | December 09, 2013 | Megyn Kelly and Dr. Scott Gottlieb, The Kelly File

[Yosemitest]

MEGYN KELLY, HOST: We are seeing new reports tonight about another possible consequence of the health care overhaul. While media outlets continue to dig into the issue of losing your plan or losing your doctor -- you can see this cover here on the Cincinnati Enquirer -- we are now hearing that you may also be losing your prescription drug coverage, or at least find to get much more expensive.

[Yosemitest]

Ping.

[freekitty]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2013/12/09/no-you-cant-keep-your-drugs-either-under-obamacare/

Having been a witness first hand in the 90’s to the HMOs where you couldn’t even see a doctor; I can probably assure you the doctors at United Health Care were not fired; rather they rejected the new HMOs in favor of the PPOs which their patients and themselves liked. It was extremely misleading to say these doctors were fired which they were not.

[yorkiemom]

Certain drugs not being covered is one aspect I hadn’t thought of. Goes hand-in-hand with the rest of Obamacare’s issues though.

I can’t wait for Jan 1 - when all those who are so excited to get free or subsidized heath care see just how high their copays and deductibles are. The plans are pretty bad. A $45 copay for a doctor visit, $50 copay for a generic prescription, and $500 deductible before you can get a non-generic prescription will make some of these socialist entitlement-grabbing Obama-lovers whine and complain. The fun has only started!

[USNBandit]

It is actually worse than that. A lot of the plans offered apply the deductible across the board for all services. Most enrollees won’t be seeing a dime of benefit from their premiums.

[Yosemitest]

Ping your friends.

Glenn Beck: Obama Centered Empire Willing to Kill 25 Million Americans


Glenn Beck 4 22 2011 The Final Chapter Begins Part 1 ( 14:46 )


Glenn Beck -4/22/2011- The Final Chapter Begins Part 2 ( 11:32 )


Glenn Beck -4/22/2011- The Final Chapter Begins Part 3 ( 13:01 )

[sickoflibs]

FNC's most talent :

[Yosemitest]

Thanks for the link.
You can watch the interview from YouTube below, so just click on it.

ObamaCare Could Bring Higher Costs For Prescription Drug Coverage ( 3:56 )

I think the more important points frtom the interview, were

" ... on average there is about 40 percent you're going to have to pay on branded drugs compared to about 25 percent in the private sector.

But the bigger issue is that the formula, the list of drugs or the plans cover in many cases aren't very long.
And if the drugs aren't covered, then you're on your own.
You basically have to pay for it entirely out of pocket.
And the money that you spend on those drugs doesn't count against your out of pocket limits and it won't count against your deductible.
This could cost patients with special conditions, patients who need special drugs a lot of money.
Literally tens of thousands of dollars a year. ... "

[Yosemitest]

These liars that shill for the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF should be tried for violating the RICO act!

" ... a lot of specialty drugs for rheumatoid arthritis, drugs for multiple sclerosis, weren't in the formula,
which means patients had to pay for those entirely out of pocket on their own.
This is very different to what happens right now in commercial insurance.
In commercial insurance, a drug isn't on your formula typically there will be coinsurance,
meaning that you will be responsible for some of the costs but the plan will pick some of the costs as well.
And it will also count against your out of pocket limits and your deductable.

In this case, it doesn't count against your out of pocket limits or your deductible,
so literally the sky is the limit on how much it can cost you.
And there is so much variability in these plans that patients are going to have to be very careful what plans they select.
Because in some formulas, it's very tight.
And not a lot of drugs are covered.
And others, it's a little bit more generous
but there is a lot of variability and not a lot of information. ... "

[11th Commandment]

Stunning! What is worse is the out of pocket drug cost will not count against your deductible!!!!!

[Yosemitest]

Correction to link:

ObamaCare Could Bring Higher Costs For Prescription Drug Coverage ( 3:56 )

[freekitty]

Could it be there is no actual healthcare coverage period in Obamacare? It’s more robbing your money to redistibute; but not to the people but to themselves.

[freekitty]

What they are really doing has nothing to do with healthcare coverage. We have already seen they don’t want us to have any insurance. Rather; they are stealing our money by force to redistribute not to the poor or minorities or whatever; but rather to themselves. That’s how they are destroying America. I say impeach him now and make accountable the people involved. It’s treason.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Never Again is here courtesy of the RAT Party.

[yorkiemom]

I think I saw some deductibles for MRIs and things like that set at $5000!

[yorkiemom]

So a lot of people will just not take their medications because they can’t afford them.

Just peachy.

[USNBandit]

This conversation made me go back and check out some plans on the WA state website. I had been under the impression that the bronze and silver plans were pretty much catastrophic coverage,but if you go to the more expensive plans inside those brackets they start coving things like doctor visits prior to meeting deductible. They still have deductibles 10 times higher than a normal employer based plan. There will be plenty of people that sign up for the wrong type of plan and spend the next year wondering why it costs them $120 to take their kid to the doctor for a sick visit.

[Yosemitest]

Yes, it IS TREASON.
But homosexual John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, sold us out and made it possible.

It's just another "Bait and Switch".
It's just another Obama LIE !

Only idiots and the evil voted for Obama, or ANY of the Democrats.
They've lied to us, constantly, and really are "Collapsing the System".
And now, these "Useful IDIOTS" who voted for them, are buying the lies that "Obamacare was designed to work." ?
It was designed to fail from the start.
THEN ... THEY GO TO THE "SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM".

Flashback: Obama's Campaign to Transition to Single Payer Health Care (VIDEO)


obama master plan on health careover the years in his own words--SINGLE PAYER!!! ( 3:38 )

They've been sucking our wallets dry for over four years now on the "Obamacare" LIE.
AND NOW THEY WANT MORE TAXES ?
Our Founding Fathers would have hung them already!

Lets review:

Who was it that cut future funding for Medicare by $575 billion?

...the president and the Democratic Party successfully bamboozle voters... The 2012 election could turn on this falsehood.
The truth is that the Obama health law reduces future funding for Medicare by $575 billion over the next 10 years ...

Mr. Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius frequently make that false claim.
Indeed, even Medicare's mailings to seniors repeat the claim that reducing spending on Medicare will make it more financially secure for future years.
The fact is that Mr. Obama's law raids Medicare.

Who was it that moved Medicare Trust Funds out of the "trust box" and into the General Revenue, replacing them with Government I.O.U.s?
"In early 1968 President Lyndon Johnson [DEMOCRAT] made a change in the budget presentation by including Social Security and all other trust funds in a"unified budget." "

Who was it that expanded Medicare and Medicaid to cover many, many more people than it was originally designed to cover?

The History of Medicare

In 1965, the Social Security Act established both Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare was a responsibility of the Social Security Administration (SSA), while Federal assistance to the State Medicaid programs was administered by the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). SSA and SRS were agencies in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). In 1977, the Health Care Financing Administration was created under HEW to effectively coordinate Medicare and Medicaid. In 1980 HEW was divided into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The first U.S. President to propose a prepaid health insurance plan was Harry S. Truman [DEMOCRAT]. On November 19, 1945, in a special message to Congress, President Truman outlined a comprehensive, prepaid medical insurance plan for all people through the Social Security system. The plan included doctors and hospitals, and nursing, laboratory, and dental services; it was dubbed "National Health Insurance." Furthermore, medical insurance benefits for needy people were to be financed from Federal revenues.

Over the years, lawmakers narrowed the field of health insurance recipients largely to social security beneficiaries. A national survey found that only 56 percent of those 65 years of age or older had health insurance. President John F. Kennedy [DEMOCRAT] pressed legislators for health insurance for the aged. However, it wasn't until 1965 that President Lyndon B. Johnson signed H.R. 6675 (The Social Security Act of 1965; PL 89-97) to provide health insurance for the elderly and the poor.

On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Bill (Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act) in Independence, Missouri in the presence of former President Truman, who received the first Medicare card at the ceremony; Lady Bird Johnson, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, and Mrs. Truman also were present. President Johnson remarked: "We marvel not simply at the passage of this Bill but that it took so many years to pass it."

Medicare extended health coverage to almost all Americans aged 65 or older. About 19 million beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare in the first year of the program. Medicaid provided access to health care services for certain low-income persons and expanded the existing Federal-State welfare structure that assisted the poor.

The 1972 Social Security Amendments expanded Medicare to provide coverage to two additional high risk groups disabled persons receiving cash benefits for 24 months under the social security program and persons suffering from end-stage renal disease.

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So Democrats,

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE
FOR INSURING THE FAILURE
OF THE MEDICARE/MEDICAID PROGRAM,
and now YOU DEMOCRATS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF THE U.S.A. ECONOMY!!!

So DEMOCRATS ... SHUT UP!!!

You have no integrity!!!

Sen Mark Kirk's statement Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 ...

"There are 55 million Social Security beneficiaries that will see little or no extra cash from this 2012 tax holiday; instead, the dedicated payroll contributions meant to pay for future benefits are being diverted from the Trust Fund
and replaced with Treasury debt that does not even have a AAA credit rating.
Social Security was designed to be independent and free from the danger of Congressional manipulation,
and maintaining the firewall between the Social Security Trust Fund and general government funding is the best way to maintain the solvency of this important program.
Neither bill protects the Social Security Trust Fund
so I voted no. "

It's not our fault that DEMOCRATS raided the Social Security Trust Fund.
Let's remember ...

Not ALL are to blame for the empty lock box.

It's the Democrats Communists.

Let's take a deeper look.

Obama: "I Don't Want the Folks who Created the Mess to do a lot of Talking" "

Okay, then the DEMOCRATS need to shut up!!!

[Yosemitest]

The Kenyan Turd planned the death of 25 Million.

[Yosemitest]

I agree, but the “Walking Dead” keep promoting him, and voting Democrat.