Folks, > How is that a problem? It looks like a step in the right direction to > me. The current Medicare all-you-can-eat system is the real problem. > When so many things are free, there is much less incentive to be thrifty > in one's medical consumption.
Don't shoot me, but I'm going to say "Amen, Erik" to this message. Sure, there are people for whom the $30 co-pay for various drugs is a burden. I have no specific suggestions for how a plan should handle that, but I recognize it as a reality. Prescription drugs can ruin a family, financially -- I'm thankful that the insurance I had via COBRA after being laid off from Sun Microsystems completely covered my chemo -- I was burning through about $9000 a month, and I was on the stuff for nine months! If I had to pay that out of pocket, I'd have been broke (and not just "Social Security in 2018 broke", either, but really broke). We're a great, wealthy, generous country: we can figure out how to take care of each other. Dave
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