CMS releases PDP and MAPD details
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InsuranceGuy29
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This release reminds me of that late 1980's song by Fleetwood Mac....."Little Lies." "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies....."
The supposed "Inflation Reduction Act" is causing TONS of inflation all throughout Medicare.
Granted, SOME people taking high-priced tiers 4 and 5 drugs needed relief, but there were many other ways to do it without causing all this chaos and inflation elsewhere.
What they did by ramming this ridiculous policy through is they've just transferred all the costs for there people that are taking those high-priced medications to absolutely everyone.
Yay, socialism, right, Ms. LaShure-Chiquita-Brooks...whatever other names are included?
Medicare it a total ecosystem. When you affect one thing, it will affect all the others. Now many Medicare beneficiaries have RECORD high ASTRONOMICAL PDP monthly premiums, slashed benefits, higher prescription drug costs themselves, slashed extra benefits, higher copays, higher deductibles, slashed agent services/help, and I could go on.
You don't go from a $8,000 catastrophic bracket that still involves paying at least a little something to a hard $2,000 MOOP cutoff IN ONE GOD DAMN YEAR. That's insane.
I mean, what if someone takes absolutely no drugs. Why should they have to pay for this??
The supposed "Inflation Reduction Act" is causing TONS of inflation all throughout Medicare.
Granted, SOME people taking high-priced tiers 4 and 5 drugs needed relief, but there were many other ways to do it without causing all this chaos and inflation elsewhere.
What they did by ramming this ridiculous policy through is they've just transferred all the costs for there people that are taking those high-priced medications to absolutely everyone.
Yay, socialism, right, Ms. LaShure-Chiquita-Brooks...whatever other names are included?
Medicare it a total ecosystem. When you affect one thing, it will affect all the others. Now many Medicare beneficiaries have RECORD high ASTRONOMICAL PDP monthly premiums, slashed benefits, higher prescription drug costs themselves, slashed extra benefits, higher copays, higher deductibles, slashed agent services/help, and I could go on.
You don't go from a $8,000 catastrophic bracket that still involves paying at least a little something to a hard $2,000 MOOP cutoff IN ONE GOD DAMN YEAR. That's insane.
I mean, what if someone takes absolutely no drugs. Why should they have to pay for this??
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MedicareWAA
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They didn’t do it in “one god damn year”. It was phased in - no catastrophic cost share in 2023 - and the entire industry has known exactly how this would look for two years.
I’m not giving a political opinion about whether the IRA is good or bad, but the negative consequences of it have been exaggerated. Is it expensive for taxpayers? Yeah. So it everything else the government does with entitlement programs.
And if someone takes no meds, they can still buy a dirt cheap Part D plan. There will be at least one very inexpensive (sometimes $0) option in almost every market. Usually 2 or 3 of them.
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