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‘An Arm and a Leg’: The New Cap on Medicare Drug Costs

September 12, 2022
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On a Sunday afternoon in August, well being companies researcher Stacie Dusetzina was sitting alone in her workplace at Vanderbilt College, watching C-SPAN and crying.

The U.S. Senate was voting on the Inflation Discount Act, which amongst different issues is designed to make sure that folks on Medicare pay much less for costly medicine.

It’s an enormous deal. A lot of seniors pay $10,000 a 12 months or extra for medicine or do with out lifesaving remedy; as soon as the brand new legislation kicks in, it units an out-of-pocket restrict of $2,000 a 12 months. 

Dusetzina and her colleagues have spent years making the case for this variation, documenting the methods present insurance policies depart folks within the lurch. 

The pharmaceutical business fought this variation tooth and nail — for many years. Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KHN, takes listeners on a journey again to the late Nineteen Eighties, when Congress discovered the price of messing with Large Pharma. 

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