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...with drug companies. With less purchasing power than the whole, drug companies sell their drugs at higher prices than they would in bulk, driving up costs for the government. It is simply nonsensical that Medicare has far less ability to negotiate drug prices than the Veterans Health Administration or Medicaid. We are also disappointed by the amount of power the pharmaceutical industry, which vehemently opposed the repeal and spent thousands on the effort to shoot it down, still wields on Capitol Hill. To some legislators, special interest groups are apparently more important than the good of elderly Americans. Since Medicare...
...real problem is that our system is upside down, particularly as it relates to things like Medicaid and Medicare. We do nothing to try to encourage the healthy behaviors that would actually control the costs. We put only focus on continuing to provide benefits irregardless of the personal choices people make. While I don?t think we should penalize people for making unhealthy choices, we shouldn?t reward it. But we should in fact create incentives and wards for those who make responsible and healthy decisions...
...pharmacies at a deeply discounted price. But one result of the complex “Deficit Reduction Act”—passed by Congress in 2005—is that continued university discounts would increase the fees that pharmaceutical companies must pay to include their drugs in Medicaid, according to the Associated Press...
...Medicaid is the government subsidized health insurance program for low-income citizens...
...Utah voters, in a recent poll, claimed they didn’t want a state tax cut that year, preferring instead increased spending on public goods like education and roads. A similar attitude towards public expenditure led 1,488 Massachusetts taxpayers to vote for a higher tax rate for Medicaid in 2003, after tax cuts were passed the previous year. If voluntary taxes increase states coffers, there should be no reason to complain...