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Average Annual Cost Of Specialty Drugs Now Exceeds US Median Household Income

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Earlier this month, we reported that Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who together lead the Senate Special Committee on Aging, have opened a bipartisan investigation into pharmaceutical drug pricing. 

In the crosshairs are Valeant, Turing, Retrophin, and Rodelis. 

News of the investigation came after Turing CEO Martin Shkreli (who also founded Retrophin) decided to boost the price of a toxoplasmosis drug he bought by some 5000%. Valeant - also known for jacking up prices on acquired drugs - was thrust into the spotlight after a series of reports prompted scrutiny of the company’s apparently less-than-“limited” relationship with pharmacy Philidor.

Whether Shkreli - who, you might have noticed, made a few moves this week in KaloBios that cost the E-trading Joe Campbells of the world a small fortune - realized it or not, his decision to raise the price of Daraprim from $13.50 to $750/pill may have been the tipping point for a market that has until now borne the rising cost of prescription drugs.

Of course patients with insurance don’t foot the whole bill, but insurance companies aren’t running charity operations so ultimately, higher costs are passed on to consumers in the form of steeper premiums. 

It’s against this backdrop that AARP has released a new study which shows that incredibly, the average annual cost of specialty drugs now exceeds the median US household income. As The Washington Post notes, “the study of 115 specialty drugs found that a year's worth of prescriptions for a single drug retailed at $53,384 per year, on average, in 2013 -- more than the median U.S. household income, double the median income of Medicare beneficiaries, and more than three times as much as the average Social Security benefit in the same year.”

From the report:

  • The average cost of therapy was more than $53,000 per drug per year for specialty prescription drugs at the end-payer (retail) level in 2013. — This average annual cost ($53,384) is more than double the average annual cost ($25,857) for a specialty drug in 2006, the year Medicare implemented Part D
  • The average annual cost of therapy for one specialty drug in 2013 ($53,384) was greater than the median US household income ($52,250), more than twice the median income for a Medicare beneficiary ($23,500), and over 40 times higher than the average Social Security retirement benefit ($1,294) over the same time period.

The report also notes that "retail prices for widely used specialty prescription drugs increased substantially faster than general inflation in every year from 2006 to 2013." For instance, AARP points out that "in 2013, retail prices for 115 specialty prescription drugs widely used by older Americans, including Medicare beneficiaries, increased by an average of 10.6 percent. In contrast, the general inflation rate was 1.5 percent over the same period."

Holly Campbell, a spokeswoman for PhRMA, the trade group that represents the pharmaceutical industry, isn't buying it. Campbell "called the report misleading and inaccurate because it fails to take into account the discounts and rebates that are applied to drugs through the negotiations between drug manufacturers, insurers and pharmacy benefit companies," WaPo notes, adding that "she also critiqued the study's methodology and pointed out that specialty medicines are used by a small number of people and account for a small share of total healthcare spending."

But that's about to change, and Campbell probably knows it. Here's AARP again: 

Until recently, relatively few patients used specialty drugs. However, the US population is steadily aging and older adults typically use more specialty medications than younger populations. In addition, specialty drugs are increasingly being used to treat common chronic conditions that affect millions of Americans. Drug manufacturers are also developing more specialty drugs, which now represent 42 percent of the late stage research and development pipeline. Overall, these trends indicate that a much larger share of the population will use specialty prescription drugs in the future

 

 Experts have projected that specialty drug spending will increase by more than 16 percent annually between 2015 and 2018, and will comprise more than 50 percent ($235 billion) of total drug spending by 2018.

And here's a look at price increases in 2013 for widely used specialty drugs by company:

 

Of course the industry will continue to insist that prices are generally indicative of how much has been invested during development, but what seems clear from the above and from stepped up lawmaker scrutiny, is that in many cases patients are simply being gouged which leads directly to, as AARP puts it, "increased health care premiums, deductibles, and other forms of cost sharing." On top of that, "prescription drug price growth also increases spending for taxpayer-funded health programs like Medicare and Medicaid, which will eventually affect all Americans in the form of higher taxes."

Yes, "increased health care premiums, deductibles, and higher taxes," but that's fine because we're all happy to subsidize the luxurious lifestyles of the world's Martin Shkrelis, right?

Meanwhile, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office announced a $390 million civil fraud settlement with Novartis on Friday and just to drive home how underhanded this industry has truly become, we'll leave you with a few passages from the press release announcing the settlement: 

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York,announced a $390 million settlement against NOVARTIS Pharmaceuticals Corp. (“NOVARTIS”) in a civil fraud lawsuit based on claims that NOVARTIS gave kickbacks to specialty pharmacies in return for recommending two of its drugs, Exjade and Myfortic. 

 

Starting in early 2007, NOVARTIS saw Exjade sales were far below internal targets because of low refill rates due, in significant part, to side effects that were more frequent and more severe than initially expected.  To increase Exjade refills and hit its sales targets, NOVARTIS leveraged its control over patient referrals to pressure BioScrip, Accredo, and US Bioservices to hire or assign nurses to call Exjade patients and, under the guise of education or clinical counseling, encourage patients to order more refills. 

 

More specifically, as the Government contended, NOVARTIS knew that, when the pharmacies called patients, they emphasized the benefits of taking Exjade – for example, by telling patients that not taking Exjade would cause damage to their organs or lead to infertility – while understating the serious, potentially life-threatening risks of taking Exjade – for example, by not mentioning potential side effects like kidney and liver failure.  Indeed, NOVARTIS encouraged the pharmacies to promote Exjade refills in these ways even though FDA had characterized claims about Exjade preventing organ damage as “unsubstantiated.”

 

In addition, the Government contended that, to incentivize the pharmacies to intensify their efforts to promote Exjade refills, NOVARTIS devised a scheme under which it allocated more patient referrals and gave higher rebates to pharmacies that obtained higher refill rates.  Indeed, NOVARTIS went forward with this scheme – which operated from 2008 to 2012 – even though it knew that the scheme presented risks of violating the Anti-Kickback Statute.

Incidentally, WSJ reported this evening that Turing is now set to generously cut the price of Daraprim in half for hospitals, which we suppose means it will "only" cost $325 now as opposed to $13.50 before.

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Full AARP report

Price Watch Trends in Retail Prices of Specialty Prescription Drugs 2006 to 2013 Nov

 

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Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:26 | 6819691 HedgeAccordingly
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lol..drug prices are so high United health is losing 100's of millions a year.. almost a$$ backwards.. Shkreli'ed

Losses Clash With CEO’s Pay At UnitedHealth
Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:37 | 6819729 Occident Mortal
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U.S. spends 17% of GDP on health care compared to 9% for countries with comparable life expectancies.

8% of US GDP wasted on inefficient healthcare is $1.5 trillion!!

More than enough to service the ridiculous national debt!!

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:52 | 6819760 Anopheles
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Big deal comparing GDP precentages.  That's almost meaningless because it doesn't take into account tax revenue.

Here's a better statistic if you are counting.   Canada has "free" healthcare.   And to sustain that "free" healthcare, the province of Ontario spends almost 50% of ALL tax revenue (including federal transfer payments) on healthcare. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:09 | 6819799 ultraticum
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Won't be long, these'll also show up on CoinRX.

https://coinrx-com.256bit-ssl-checkout.com/

No muss, no fuss, no cartel with their greedy hand in front of you.

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 21:11 | 6819942 Occident Mortal
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Of course GDP includes tax revenue and government spending you dumbass.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:16 | 6819819 conscious being
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So what? Better spent on healthcare than bombs, Israeli transfer payments or MRAPs.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:40 | 6819871 Ignatius
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For a "conscious being" you seem to struggle with the concept of the false choice.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 22:05 | 6820073 Joe Sichs Pach
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There are very few people who's very face screams "Douche Bag" like this Shkrelli guy does.  

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 22:08 | 6820081 FredFlintstone
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your name tells me you might be Vietnamese

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 02:06 | 6820551 Kassandra
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That one was born with a bullseye on him...

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 23:16 | 6820243 grant
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Yet you think it's "meaningful" to compare a country to a province?

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 05:37 | 6820537 August
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I'm an old fart medical specialist with licenses to practice in New Zealand and the USA.  Some thoughts:

1) I refuse to practice anymore in the USA, because it makes me feel compromised (aka "dirty").

2) Generally speaking I'm not a left-winger, and think that a healthcare system somehow connected to a "free market" is actually a good idea.

3) What has grown up in the USA is NOT chiefly the fault of doctors, 95% of whom are decent folk who just want to do what they've invested many years in training to do (5% or so are white collar criminals, though).

4) THE American healthcare problem is the unholy symbiosis between federal government and those lobbyists who so ably represent big pharma and, of course, the insurance industry, to the lying criminals in Congress.

5)  I have no particular solutions to offer, other than try real hard not to play the game.

To paraphrase Mr. Galbraith, the true purpose of "American Healthcare" is to make homeopathy look respectable.

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:38 | 6819699 Lumberjack
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They want to kill us old folk off anyway... We have years of knowledge and corporate memory. They have the younger gen brainwashed on video games promoting bad credit no money down cars, student loans (for no real jobs) and of course mortgages. They are playing you and I mean it (transgender/gay/race etc.). I can confidently say who give a flying fuck about it. Keep ypu privacy and freedom. Some idiots cash in on this and the rest of us would rather not nor cause issues on such meanial bullshit.

 

We paid for it and now that it is time to get a very small percentage of our so called investment back...fugget aboutit. Would you stay with a wealth management company that has worked as well as dot guv?  They really know how to manage your money now don't they..../s

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:22 | 6819834 ToSoft4Truth
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Poetically, iBoomers turned against Vietnam Vets, their generation.

iBoomers still turn against themselves  (J. Michael Pearson Born 1960).

Be thankful if you don’t need maintenance drugs. 

On the other hand, fit Citizens like the iBoomer role models Jack LaLanne or Charles Atlas rarely need maintenance drugs.

If you have extra cheese hop on their backs and invest in maintenance drugs. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:30 | 6819703 Sokhmate
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Kill two birds with one pill/poison: medical + tourism.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:32 | 6819709 Bank_sters
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Dunno, one day a sick person might decide to take shekel with them.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:50 | 6819755 Baronneke
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Hopefully sooner, very sooner, than later.  These kind of people don't deserve the air that they are breathing.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:58 | 6819773 knukles
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Nail gun accident late at night.... ruled suicide, with 12 to the torso and 4 to the cranium with 2 more pithing into lower skull, since he had his personal banker's card in his left hand with his right trapped under the rear wheel of his smouldering Tesla

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:33 | 6819714 chunga
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This is such a fucking criminal racket. Take a look at generic antibiotic doxycycline that's been around almost 50 years. Some people suggest that the big pharmacy outfits conspired to buy all of it for the purpose of creating a fake shortage. When a drug costs 30 times what it once did

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/07/business/la-fi-lazarus-20130308

 

Diane Shattuck filled a prescription in December for a generic antibiotic called doxycycline. With insurance, she paid $4.30 for 60 pills at a CVS store in Orange.

 

She returned at the end of February to refill her prescription. This time, she was told her cost for the drug would be about $165.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:18 | 6819823 conscious being
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The best approach is live right and don't get sick.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:57 | 6819911 chunga
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Yup, and when your time comes hide and dispose of your own body. Otherwise someone will come along and try to rescue you and send a huge bill to your kin.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 21:14 | 6819948 Occident Mortal
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Nailed it.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 00:28 | 6820387 A Nanny Moose
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Will taxes still acrue?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 21:51 | 6820026 Squid Viscous
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my uncle is 95, pretty much never been on a script in his life, now he's in a senior "residence" and up to 13 pills a day... started refusing to take them, good for him let the guy die in peace you fucking vampires

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:33 | 6819716 SILVERGEDDON
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Fuck the system, and fuck their poisonous creations.

" Physician, heal thyself. "

Eat clean food, well, do supplements and exercise, stay the fuck away from the " medical system ".

Live well, and die when it is your time.

Death is just another step into the future, so who fucking cares ?

Live and die with a clear head, and a clear body.

Anything else is poisonous slavery.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:52 | 6819762 msmith9962
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Stay out of the medical industrial complex.  Lookup on Youtube/Amazon MSM and book by Stanley Jacobs.  The Metobolic Makeover by Cherniske and any of his books.  The One Minute Miracle.

 

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:38 | 6819730 Raymond_K._Hessel
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Apparently criticism of drug pricing in the us makes one a 'socialist' on ZH post the Breitbart/Drudge influx, so I wont dare suggest that Americans are not only being raped, but are subsidizing low cost drugs around the world.

Cute.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:42 | 6819740 nmewn
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At least we still have the option not to take it, of course no ones actually read ObamaCare so who knows, it may be mandated.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:29 | 6819849 BurningFuld
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"Apparently criticism of drug pricing in the us makes one a 'socialist' on ZH post the Breitbart/Drudge influx, so I wont dare suggest that Americans are not only being raped, but are subsidizing low cost drugs around the world.

Cute."

Yes just part of the massive burden you have to carry on your shoulders as an American

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 21:08 | 6819932 nmewn
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...taxpayer.

Ya know what? From here on out I'm "cheating" and "lying" on everything. The "ones" I'm lying and cheating to are doing the same.

Forward!...into the abyss.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:39 | 6819733 nmewn
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Man, you could really make a killin off of all the dying.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:42 | 6819739 blindman
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jeez, if you don't even think about it
you already know this is fundamentally
unsustainable.
@"Average Annual Cost Of Specialty Drugs Now Exceeds US Median Household Income" ..
.
for some reason, all i can think is
"winning, tiger blood" ... c.s.
and now, he is bleeding blackmail, designer
hiv medication and attorney's fees; nevermind
the other image and cognitive dead ends. as they
say, shit happens and it happens alot,
all over the place.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:59 | 6819766 knukles
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Lemme see here. 
Old people cost the most to care for. 
Therefore, the government wants to kill off the old useless eaters with death panels.
However .... if the old useless eaters are killed off by the death panels than there's nobody left to buy all the crap the pahrmas want to sell,
Nor enough useless old eaters paying premiums to the health insurance providers whose profit off the old folks is in any case regulated and guaranteed by the Federal Government.

It's a Suicidal Ouroboros!

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 00:14 | 6820355 nosam
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Sat, 11/21/2015 - 06:25 | 6820715 AmCockerSpaniel
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knukles; Do you know that the only one who wants to live to one hundred, is the one who is 99. You don't know till you get there!  I'm in the 70's and now I am learning all

about this shit!

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:59 | 6819769 Anopheles
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Well, the people are getting from pharma exactly what they asked for.  What do I mean?  People screamed at the government that drug companies were putting out "dangerous" drugs (Thalidomide  etc).   So the government listened, and made approvals EXTREMELY difficult and EXPENSIVE.  It costs around a BILLION dollars or more to get a new drug approved.    And for a drug to remain in the market, Patented or not, drug companies MUST CONSTANTLY submit annual reports to the FDA.   Guess who pays for all that "safety".

Drugs could be made much cheaper.  The government simply has to do 2 things.

1.  Scale back the required testing for approvals, like they do in all other countries

2.  Remove product liability.  Meaning you can't go and sue drug companies for billions of dollars if their drug does something bad to you.    Again, just like in other countries.

So, what do you want?  Cheap drugs, or safety and ability to sue?  You can't have both. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:01 | 6819781 knukles
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Gimme dat an'n Bammy phone and I won't sticks yo ass

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 19:58 | 6819775 Bill of Rights
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Bottom line your not gonna be able to afford to be sick, better change your lifestyle and quick.

Stay healthy my friends ....

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:00 | 6819778 ToSoft4Truth
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‘a toxoplasmosis drug he bought by some 5000%’

How do we go about buying these drug recipes?  I looked on Craigslist and came up empty. 

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:08 | 6819798 Amy G. Dala
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Easy.  Just buy a low-margin generic line already in production that has a monopoly.  It only takes the FDA four or five years to approve a generic drug even if its composition in the public domain.  So you get four or five years of a protected monopoly.  That's all this guy did.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:28 | 6819846 ToSoft4Truth
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I’m going to look around.

The next best thing would be counterfeiting the drugs.

Host pharmaceutical parties similar to “Pampered Chef” or ‘“Pure Romance” - In-Home Sex Toy Parties for Women’.

Hey, sell 5K worth of “product” grab 1 free month insulin and heart meds. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:04 | 6819787 Amy G. Dala
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So . . . the generation who gave us the $6 cup of coffee, the $25 movie ticket, the $150 tennis shoe, the $800 telephone, the $60,000 station wagon, the $200k education and the $600k mortgage . . .

And now they want cheap drugs!  Oh, the humanity!

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:15 | 6819815 Exit through th...
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What do you expect? An entire nation of fat assed supper sized GMO eating mind numb zombies, who have only enough strength to walk to the SNAP filled refrigerator with a smart phone that is sucking brain cells out by the millions. Diabetes Tastes GOOD!!!!

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:40 | 6819873 ToSoft4Truth
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Frankly, SNAP mindset is the best mindset.

SNAPPERs don’t have to worry about Social Security taking their paid-off house.  They don’t have the mental anguish of reverse mortgages.  They don’t have to worry about unexpected water heater replacement bills.  

Moreover, the minute Euthanasia is made ‘legal’ Big Pharma will lose all pricing power.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 21:19 | 6819956 chunga
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Looking at things purely pragmatically, when an entrenched system games people, we shouldn't be surprised to learn people try to game it.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:19 | 6819827 coast
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Marijuana is really cheap now in Oregon..learning now how to make cannibas oil....

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 21:22 | 6819962 Bill of Rights
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Nice...

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:32 | 6819854 homiegot
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Sometimes you have to ask: Is it worth living like this?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 21:15 | 6819949 22winmag
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Meanwhile, aggressive hair-trigger cops receive anabolic steroids as part of their "benefits" package: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/hundreds_of_nj_police_firefigh....

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 22:27 | 6819977 Yen Cross
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 People miss one of the stipulations listed in the 'Unaffordable Healthcare Act.'

  Typically insurors invest premiums for yield, in order tp pay future claims. Under the Zerocare Act., healthcare cos. have to pool those premiums for the under-non insured, and can't freely invest the funds.

 United FarceCare, doesn't have the lateral financial movement to MUPPETIZE it's clients/insured debt slaves monies at will.

Large insurance companies have been purchasing "specialized care" companies thinking that they could make higher profits/markups from Federal reimbursements, knowing they can't use monies from premiums to play in the casino. { they love commercial real estate}

 The strategy has back<fired, terribly, and now these clowns at "United Ponzi Care" want out.

Stipulation; a condition or requirement that is specified or demanded as part of an agreement.

 

Paging Knukles? 

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 21:32 | 6819982 RabbitOne
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Drug prices are out of control in the U.S. because of Obama. Current Cash Prices for a One-Month Supply of MS Medication at Walmart blow you away:

Drug Name (Manufacturer) Dose               Walmart

Betaseron (Bayer)           0.3MG INJ (14)        $5,154.54

Copaxone (Teva)         20MG 1PK=30 INJ        $5,507.32

Extavia (Bayer)           0.3MG INJ (15)          $4,430.46

Gilenya (Novartis)         0.5MG CAP (28)          $5,372.18

Without insurance my wife taking Betaseron would bankrupt us quickly at $62K a year.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 21:58 | 6820045 Oath_Keeper
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So.. you are fucking the rest of us by not ponying up?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 22:11 | 6820096 BiPolarFrenchman
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It's not his wife that's fucking it up, it's mandated wealth transfer.  

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 22:29 | 6820143 Yen Cross
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Oath_Keeper forgot the </sarc> tag. ;-)

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 12:08 | 6821238 Anopheles
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An off topic thought, for your wife, was Lyme Disease rulled out? 

 I know personally of two cases where diagnosis was MS and people were in wheelchairs,  but it was actually  Lyme Disease.  They didnt discover it was Lyme until 10 to 20 years later.  It a surprisingly common mistake. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 22:01 | 6820041 Oath_Keeper
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Blame Senator Hatch (UTAH) for drug prices. He wrote the patent expiration bill.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 22:31 | 6820148 Yen Cross
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 That's funny. Utah, the land of polygamy.  ha

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 22:50 | 6820187 Faeriedust
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The true Libertarian solution to this problem would be to DEREGULATE MEDICAL CARE.  If patients were free to choose their own treatments without having to get an overpriced nanny to write them a permission slip, and could fill their needs from any source willing to sell, then the prices which are ARTIFICIALLY MAINTAINED by monopolies and insider dealings would fall dramatically.  We know this, because prices in the rest of the world are nowhere near the levels paid in the U.S.  Simply crossing the border into Canada can reduce the price of both medical care and drugs by 75%.

The U.S. medical system is a government-supported scam.  The U.S. population is the most medically-sophisticated in the world, and yet it has less freedom to self-treat than the citizens of places like India, Mexico, or Guatamala, and the prices we pay are part and parcel of the monopoly system.

 

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 00:25 | 6820373 Anopheles
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It's like that in most developing countries.  You can walk into any drug store and buy anything you want.  Drugs are cheap.  Quality?  Who knows?  But they're CHEAP.   If the drug doesn't work the way it's supposed to, or kills you?   Tough luck, no recourse, not even a refund. 

But it's also all the self medication that's created drug resistant TB, and  drug resistant bacteria. And the people still didn't cure themselves.   There's a good reason for diagnostic tests...

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 23:55 | 6820327 Anopheles
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You want cheap drugs?   No problem. Just order them from China or India.  Whatever drugs you want for a fraction of the price.  India makes a large percentage of generics anyway, and also copy a lot of other drugs.

Quality?   Put it this way.  At least two  big Indian companies have been banned from selling their generic drugs in the US because of quality control issues. 

Where do you want to get your drugs? 

 

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 00:21 | 6820368 nosam
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The US drug companies might have conspired to get those Indian companies banned.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 00:34 | 6820405 Anopheles
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To you, everything's a conspiracy.    sheesh

But there's no conspiracy here.  The Indian companies supply a LOT of drugs to US companies,  who just repackage them.  In fact, most drugs aren't manufactured in the US.  India is one of the biggest drug manufacturers in the world.  

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 00:17 | 6820363 pupdog1
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Tribe is fucking tribe here.

That doesn't last forever.

 

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 11:17 | 6821101 sam site
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The irony is that the sheeple are desperately clamoring for a poisonous product that's dangerous and doesn't heal anything and actually works against your natural immune system.

Big Pharma Drugs are synthetic petroleum-based chemicals using mostly coal-tars that the body doesn't recognize except as a foreign poison that burdons the liver to eliminate.

Because the sheeple have been chemically dumbed down, made anxious and fearful by a lifetime of poisoning by vaccines, fluoride, chemtrails and GMOs, they are in little position to trust

their own instincts, research and try natural supplements to boost their own immune systems and heal themselves. 

It's sad to see the masses clamor for poisons, cloaked as their sole salvation.

 

 

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 11:58 | 6821213 Anopheles
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Watch where you step, your shadow is out to get you...... 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 00:17 | 6826419 onmail1
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