Posted on 06/21/2022 10:17:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It is not a “sexy” case; that is why the media is supposedly ignoring it.
The Section 340B drug reimbursement program paid out to “favored” hospitals and community clinics.
They were the ones that wanted the price of insulin and albuterol to go up, so that they could charge more for the medicines.
This action was at the beginning of the new administration, and was covered here in FR.
The 340B price increase was never about helping the poor but rather sending more government largess to the businesses that assist Dem politicians.
“How does it effect a normal middle income guy like myself?”
I have no idea, but I’m pretty sure you won’t be paying less for health insurance or medical care next year.
Fact Sheet: The 340B Drug Pricing Program
Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act requires pharmaceutical manufacturers participating in Medicaid to sell outpatient drugs at discounted prices to health care organizations that care for many uninsured and low-income patients. These organizations include community health centers, children’s hospitals, hemophilia treatment centers, critical access hospitals (CAHs), sole community hospitals (SCHs), rural referral centers (RRCs), and public and nonprofit disproportionate share hospitals (DSH) that serve low-income and indigent populations.
https://www.aha.org/fact-sheets/2020-01-28-fact-sheet-340b-drug-pricing-program
Actually, they view them as useful idiots to mine for votes and just idiots when they are done with them.
Now that 2020 has shown that necessary votes can be created, their value as useful idiots has seriously declined.
The court:
“We conclude that, absent a survey of hospitals’ acquisition costs, HHS may not vary the reimbursement rates for 340B hospitals. HHS’s 2018 and 2019 reimbursement rates for 340B hospitals were therefore contrary to the statute and unlawful.”
Me two.
“How does it effect a normal middle income guy like myself?”
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I have no idea, but I’m pretty sure you won’t be paying less for health insurance or medical care next year.
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Hospitals will no longer be required to subsidize drug prices for the indigent. The government will have to assume this burden, rather than fob it off onto hospitals, who must recover the cost by raising fees for the rest of us who have health insurance.
There’s a whole lot of crap that the Democrats do that is illegal that the USSC should rule 9-0 against. But, we don’t want to upset anyone do we? I mean, protesters might show up at their houses or something.
Well, it'll keep our taxes high.
That’s a given for anything the government does.
Ya it means the price of drugs should go down.
But that a lower court had ruled that “the U.S. HHS had the authority to reduce by $1.6 billion the yearly Medicare payments for outpatient drugs that had helped subsidize the operations of hospitals catering to the poor and disabled” is troubling. How can two sets of justices be so opposite?
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