People strike back at the "healthcare" industry

I don’t think that’s the word you wanted to use.

Rush is dead so it’s OK.

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And most people who don’t purposefully cover their eyes can see how well that has turned out as capitalism cannibalizes itself.

Yeah and it’s so sad that a man who purposefully mislead people most of his adult life is gone. And he got rich keeping fools ignorant. Viva la capitalism!

I don’t think you know what it means.

I don’t think you know the grammatical genders in Spanish.

Who fucking cares, loser?

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I don’t believe something like this could happen in a for profit “healthcare” industry. Total lies!

You have a pattern of writing things you know nothing about, be it in Economics or Romance languages.
It’s obvious that you’re an utter failure in every field of knowlege except potatoe algebra.

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That’s how it works at T nation.

Bwahahahaha… tell me about your correct orthodox economic thought.

Potatoes

Of note, the error here was via pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers, not UnitedHealthcare insurance where Brian was CEO.

A PBM is a third party intermediate who connects insurance companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers/pharmacies.

From the article:

“The pharmacy care business is accused of not relaying its formulary of covered drugs to its customers, an alleged violation of Wisconsin law that requires such businesses to notify patients at least 30 days before coverage runs out.”

Basically, negotiations were made between insurance and the provider (as discussed in posts above), results of those negotiations led to changes in coverage (likely the pharmacists wouldn’t play ball at the lower costs insurance companies were seeking, in effort to manage aforementioned and regulated mandatory ratios) but the changes were not communicated to the client by the responsible party.

So add PBMs to the list of people to kill first, after the pharmaceutical companies/pharmacy retailers who wouldn’t agree to a lower, affordable cost.

Or, again, the govt for forcing insurance companies to hold balanced ratios that force coverage drop decisions.

It’s a tangled web.

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I get that, but aside from who to blame, it shows there is a serious problem in healthcare. How is an inhaler over 500 dollars? And to make things worse, the manufactures of inhalers have recently agreed to not charge more than 35 dollars, I believe, for inhalers.

As far as blame, why did the insurance drop covering inhalers? Could they have reduced how much they would cover? And I don’t doubt the possibility that some of these meds are way overpriced because they expect insurance to pay. But we are dealing with people’s lives, literally, so there is something if not illegal, immoral, about just dropping coverage and not working to help people obtain meds in the meantime. There should be some contingency plan in place for situations like this. And if we say businesses have no moral obligations then they can’t complain when people feel no moral outrage when they get zero sympathy.

As a side note, I lost a lot of sleep last night worrying about the debt.

Sure. Pinning the tail on the right donkey is important, however. If you want to clean your garden of weeds and just start hacking at the flowers because they’re the most readily visible thing, you’re going to have a fucked up garden. And that’s exactly what has been happening, since ACA rolled out.

This is why, and the aforementioned financial ratio regulations. You’d have to be a fly on the wall in the meetings where they discussed what to adjust to really know. They’re literally forced in to “rob Peter to pay Paul” scenarios when stuck between rising provider and pharmaceutical costs, mandated financial ratio maintenance and, in some cases, premium control measures.

I guarantee what they did not do was wake up one morning and say “you know what? Fuck people with asthma. Inhalers are $500 now”.

Or, more accurately, people have to pay the real cost, from the pharma industry, because we won’t cover it anymore just for fun.

Understand the right target to aim at, that’s my whole point.

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goaway

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An ignoramus like yourself ought to take your own advice.

United Health Group is the bad guy. They own Optimum (the PBM) and United Healthcare.

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