The Affordable Care Act’s health insurance tax, or HIT, makes coverage less affordable.
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Americans deserve a health care system that provides universal—and universally affordable—coverage for today’s Americans, and a fiscally sustainable system for the generations to come. All Americans should have the freedom to choose among a wide variety of plans that suit their needs. Taxpayer-funded subsidies should be reserved for the poor, the sick and the vulnerable—not the wealthy. Enabling competition and curtailing the power of health care monopolies will lower patients’ costs and increase innovation in patient care.
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Pharmacy benefit managers and wholesalers have an obscure, but important, role in reducing the price of prescription medicines.
FDA acts on a key FREOPP recommendation for lowering the price of unaffordable prescription drugs.
An innovative new rule will encourage Medicare plans to pit injectable and oral drugs against each other.
Both focus on the power of competition and negotiation to make more medicines affordable.
‘No one in this country should be denied medical care for lack of funds,’ said the Gipper.
Number one: Help low-earners afford their deductibles.
It’s critical that the Senate structure its health insurance tax credits in the right way.