New ACA rules will require nonprofit hospitals to offer more discounted care to lower-income Americans. This is marginal cost-shifting in a dysfunctional system.
Expensive brand name drug Lucentis isn’t any more effective than its generic counterpart Avastin, but yet doctors prescribe Lucentis at high rates to the tune of a billion dollars a year.
Despite the ACA, rising premiums and deductible costs are burdening Americans in a way that threatens the whole economy. Solving our health care problems has never been more urgent, but neither party has a great solution.
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