Politics Thread

[noteggs]

Very few ever reach the max out of pocket on Part D. 1.5 million in 2019.

Well if ask any physician, they will tell you all their seniors are in the donut hole lol. On a serious note, there is a reason because your number leaves out one important number, those who became dual eligible or low income subsidy patients. Those people are not included in the number you presented.

That number fluctuates yearly, but is roughly between 29-30% of the plan d patients. The percentage should drop because of number of patients entering Medicare age.

If you become dual eligible by hitting the donut hole, your benefits moves over to the State and they will cover your drug costs. As you can imagine, drugs become extremely inexpensive because now they will be using Medicaid out of pocket costs. Each State each year negotiates directly with the manufacturer on price (Paul would be proud - real negotiating).

The only problem with the States is they normally only include one drug per class to be on their formulary. So a patient may be switched from a drug that is currently working.

As you can see from my last post, I used the word potential because there no way to know and so many moving parts. Is it only 8 billion, 100 billion, or more? No one really knows. Only the government could come up with a plan so complicated.

[noteggs]

Double post

[bobbiemcgee]

Mitch laments his senate candidates are "low quality".

[Smails]

Mitch laments his senate candidates are "low quality".

I agree..bad batch in Ohio, PA and GA.

[X-band '01]

She’ll likely be on The View next.

Republicans might wish she goes there instead of potentially being part of Joe Biden's cabinet beginning in 2023. Especially if she winds up in a position where she could do more damage than a simple member of the House.

I agree..bad batch in Ohio, PA and GA.

At least Republicans in Missouri dodged the Eric Greitens landmine.

I'd also add Arizona to the list of places where they nominated someone bad.

[Strange Brew]

Republicans might wish she goes there instead of potentially being part of Joe Biden's cabinet beginning in 2023. Especially if she winds up in a position where she could do more damage than a simple member of the House.



At least Republicans in Missouri dodged the Eric Greitens landmine.

I'd also add Arizona to the list of places where they nominated someone bad.

Couldn’t do much worse than the current members of Biden’s cabinet…

[bobbiemcgee]

I agree..bad batch in Ohio, PA and GA.

Looks like they are running out of money. Not surprised as Scott is a criminal. Stole all his money from Medicare fraud:

https://www.newsweek.com/rick-scotts...w-cash-1735418

[Strange Brew]

Looks like they are running out of money. Not surprised as Scott is a criminal. Stole all his money from Medicare fraud:

https://www.newsweek.com/rick-scotts...w-cash-1735418

Haha, you’re worried about graft in gov’t but support Biden. It’s beyond ironic.

[bobbiemcgee]

graft? Nope. Scott is a thief. They put cookie monster in charge of the cookie jar.

[Strange Brew]

graft? Nope. Scott is a thief. They put cookie monster in charge of the cookie jar.

Yep, like putting a Biden in charge of Ukraine or China.