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So it begins: Obamacare forcing states to cap, cut prescription drug benefits for seniors and the poor
But they’re the party of compassion, don’t ya know:
A new report from Kaiser Health indicates states are now moving in the direction of capping or cutting prescription drug benefits.
Illinois Medicaid recipients have been limited to four prescription drugs as the state becomes the latest to cap how many medicines it will cover in the state-federal health insurance program for the poor.
Sixteen states impose a monthly limit on the number of drugs Medicaid recipients can receive and seven states have either enacted such caps or tightened them in the past two years, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KHN is a program of the foundation). The limits vary across the country. Mississippi has a limit of two brand-name drugs. In Arkansas adults are limited to up six drugs a month. Since June, Alabama has had the nation’s stingiest Medicaid drug benefit after limiting adults to one brand-name drug. HIV and psychiatric drugs were excluded. On Aug. 1 the state will relax the limit to its previous level — four brand-name drugs — after the restriction saved more money than expected and the state received money as part of a settlement with a pharmaceutical company.
Anonymous
August 1st, 2012
Doesn’t that picture perfectly capture those two for the sinister soulless ghouls that they are ?
Bruce Cooperman
August 1st, 2012
If it hasn’t before, this pic needs to be in a caption contest:
(Boogieman)
Here I am, your backdoor man,
Here I am, yea, yea…
Anonymous
August 1st, 2012
Joe: Barack, do you know what’s funny? You have no tan lines.
Anonymous
August 1st, 2012
Joker and The Penguin
Annie
August 1st, 2012
Ummm, just on the face of this, I’m for it. The testosterone patches, the statins for 80-yr olds, the bipolar meds for non bipolar patients, etc.