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Posted On: 01/13/2017 2:11:40 PM
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I dont see GOP health policy helping K that much...while there is a lot of negotiation to be had I read Ryans proposal for folks with cancer as follows:
Ryan made it clear during his CNN healthcare town hall that his plan to reduce healthcare costs involving moving cancer patients to high-risk pools that will be run by the states with benefits capped.They are proposing a $25 billion risk pool fund over a 10 year period. That sounds like a lot, but it only averages $2.5 billion per year. Experts suggested that to adequately cover 875,000 high-risk patients would have cost seven billion per year in 2008. That’s 2.8x as much as Ryan is proposing, and that was 9 years ago (10, if we assume the new plan doesn’t go into effect until 2018). I have to imagine that $7B would be up to at least $10B by then, and that’s for 875,000 patients.”
2.4 million Americans have expensive pre-existing conditions. Apparently the GOP answer to their healthcare costs is to lump them all in an underfunded state-run high-risk pool with capped lifetime benefits limits.
While obviously a nightmare for cancer patients I see it as bad for CTIX and K...capped benefits mean less access to K for folks who really need it...
its early but not liking this at all
Ryan made it clear during his CNN healthcare town hall that his plan to reduce healthcare costs involving moving cancer patients to high-risk pools that will be run by the states with benefits capped.They are proposing a $25 billion risk pool fund over a 10 year period. That sounds like a lot, but it only averages $2.5 billion per year. Experts suggested that to adequately cover 875,000 high-risk patients would have cost seven billion per year in 2008. That’s 2.8x as much as Ryan is proposing, and that was 9 years ago (10, if we assume the new plan doesn’t go into effect until 2018). I have to imagine that $7B would be up to at least $10B by then, and that’s for 875,000 patients.”
2.4 million Americans have expensive pre-existing conditions. Apparently the GOP answer to their healthcare costs is to lump them all in an underfunded state-run high-risk pool with capped lifetime benefits limits.
While obviously a nightmare for cancer patients I see it as bad for CTIX and K...capped benefits mean less access to K for folks who really need it...
its early but not liking this at all
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