Every senior will have a 2K/year max regardless of prescription drug plan. If your plan is changing it is likely a Medicare Advantage plan subsidized by your state not federal/original Medicare.
Wow, interesting. Do you mind telling me what state this is? In Texas I have never heard of an employer plan that is Medicare Advantage with multiple plans to choose from. Even IRS and USPS (fed obv) only get one option.
I have pulmonary fibrosis. It is considered rare, so they can price gouge. OFEV could extend my life expectancy from three to 12 years. It slows but doesn’t cure.
I’m old enough to remember when seniors were eating dog and cat food and/or taking half of their prescriptions and saving them for another flare up. 2k is nothing to many people, but I can’t imagine living on social security and paying that! SMH
Let's see, for many seniors that is a month of money from their social security checks. So we are supposed to cheer about this news? Pharma companies are taking the USA for a ride. And they are padding GOP politicians pockets to keep them in office so nothing changes.
Ok so why isn’t this information widely disseminated so the public knows?! Dems are just the worst marketers, always to their own detriment. Trump will simply take credit and the public will believe him. Wait and see.
Prescription costs are nuts in the US. I got a bad enteric infection about five years ago and had to get an antibiotic prescription that was two thousand dollars for one fill.
I know this is a big step forward, but as an American whose husband benefited from the Italian national healthcare system, this is still horrifying. The American system isn’t going to improve any time soon now, which is why I’m so dead set against moving back to the US. Anything but that.
Just in time. I lost my prescription plan through the state of MD, and forced onto Medicare Part D. My Inhaler alone will come to $2k.
The projection is $357 per month.
This is a great start, but social security payments ranges from $1,200 to $2,900 a month. Most seniors are on handfuls of medications. This isn’t going to help very much.
I just think we should spend more energy pushing for $0 medications, especially for anyone living on social security. It is a bit ridiculous that we pay for SSI and Medicare since we start working and then we’re still expected to pay premiums and co-pays when we need it.
What's really fucking sad is the trump cult. Seems to me a lot of people failed to do their own research when it came to that piece of shit posing as a human being.
That would be great. United has denied my last 2 prescriptions. Because they were “denied”, they won’t go toward my deductible either. They get you any way they can.
Hm nearly all Part D's dropped in price and those that went up are marginal increases that are still considerably less per year for Tier 3-5 meds than prior to Biden's bill.
Most plans allow you to switch through end of January since most begin February of the new year. If you have original Medicare you can change your Part D annually for reasons exactly like this.
Agreed!
I think it really is all about delivery. In a logical, common sense first-world country, people will accept that if it's told in a direct way: X dollars per pay check will go towards Y dollars of medical expenses and Z dollars of post-retirement expenses. Income determines money allocation.
Insurance and retirement savings companies should be grouped according to which will give service per income, and people can choose which company to use.
Can they send a letter to everyone signed by Joe Biden taking credit for this right now because Trump will definitely take credit for it in a few weeks
Perfect is the enemy of good. And frankly, immediately complaining that a massive win isn't good enough is how we got where we're about to be in a few weeks.
Is this better than no annual cap? Of course. But I cant get excited for this when we already have a solution that would eliminate all copays and cost less per month than a health insurance premium that doesn't cover anything when you go to use it. We need M4A, not small incremental change.
It doesn't matter how many dems win if the party leadership continues to be completely owned by the healthcare lobby. FDR was successful because he took on the billionaires who had captured the party, defeated them and then made money in politics illegal. Otherwise don't expect dems to fix anything.
Who was the 1st president to win after the SCOTUS made money in politics legal again? Reagan who won 49 states. Who was the 1st dem to embrace corporate money? Bill Clinton, who then signed NAFTA just like his donors demanded and shipped all our jobs overseas so corps could exploit cheap labor.
He those majorities because he had a massive labor movement behind him, the only labor movement that defeated the billionaire-backed fascist movements that swept across the west. Turns out when you pass sweeping progressive legislation you'll win 4 elections and force the gop to move left to compete
This is part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act from the Biden Administration, they've been set to reduce in 2025 since the act was approved in 2022. Has ZERO to do with that CEo.
I pay taxes so my grandmother can get her kidney and liver meds. Not so Congressmen can get paid 200k a year. Make them live on minimum wage and pay the same taxes we all do and see how fast it gets raised.
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I thought my husband's eliquis was bad. Lordy.
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You know, send a message
It's an annual cap for Medicare part D. Not monthly.
Before now there was no cap. This is a huge step forward.
It's a step, not the finish line. If you want better, do the work to get there.
The projection is $357 per month.
For everyone
THUMBS TF DOWN!! ONE STAR.
No one is perfect, but they helped so many.
They raised my SSDI by $75 a month, just this year. I would still like higher, but it's better.
Insurers will restrict access to offset the new drug copay cap.
https://www.medicare.gov/plan-compare/#/?lang=en&year=2025
I think it really is all about delivery. In a logical, common sense first-world country, people will accept that if it's told in a direct way: X dollars per pay check will go towards Y dollars of medical expenses and Z dollars of post-retirement expenses. Income determines money allocation.
Plain and simple, straight to the point.
Who made them free? Who brought them back? JFK. Who added kids? Bill Clinton.
People were angry at fdr for cutting benefits
fuck outta here
this is still a lot to european ears.
That’s nuts.
That caps it at around $167/month. That's a lot for some, but that's still so much better.
I remember my grandmother's meds at one point were $400+/month. It was definitely a financial strain. This would have been a huge help.