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A Medicare Prescription Drug Safety Net: Creating a Targeted Benefit for Low-Income Seniors: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First S
OCLC Number: 54483287 Excerpt: ...4 $ 3,000 limit the Government would pay for all the costs for pre-scription drugs. In order to contain the cost of ...Show synopsisOCLC Number: 54483287 Excerpt: ...4 $ 3,000 limit the Government would pay for all the costs for pre-scription drugs. In order to contain the cost of the program and prevent it from becoming a runaway entitlement, which is something that we can-not afford according to the studies that I have seen, I mean, $ 7, $ 8, $ 10 trillion over the next 10 - 15 years is something that we just do not have, in order to contain the cost of the program and pre-vent it from becoming a runaway entitlement, we provide a hard dollar cap on the program expenses over a 10 year period of $ 200 billion. In addition, we also give the Secretary of HHS the power to ne-gotiate discount drug prices on behalf of beneficiaries. One of the things I cannot understand, and I wish everybody in America could hear this, is why in the world, if the Federal Government is going to be buying prescription drugs by the millions and millions and millions of dollars in pills, why can we not negotiate with the phar-maceutical companies on the cost of the prescription drugs that we are buying. But there is a prohibition against that. There is nothing in the legislation that allows our Government to negotiate the prices that the American people are going to pay through Medicare for these prescription drugs. It makes no sense. And we are not talking about cost controls. We are talking about negotiations that would provide a profit for the pharmaceutical companies and the best price for the American taxpayer as well as the recipients. Right now Tomoxifin, and I have used this example many, many times, if you do not have coverage of any kind, it can cost up to $ 360 for a 30-day supply in the United States. If a woman has breast cancer and she does not have any coverage, that is a lot of money, $ 360 for 30 days. In Canada it costs $ 50. In Germany it costs $ 60 for the very same thing. Now why in the world we cannot negotiate prices when we are talking about a Medicare prescription drug benefit is beyond m...Hide synopsis
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