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59 minutes ago, nonniey said:

You do realize this is a pretty damning statistic for Obamacare.

 

Tbf, ACA has done a better job of reining in cost that before.  It was in the 6-9% in the 2000's before ACA.  Since ACA, it has been as low as 2.9% and as high as 5.8%

 

https://www.thebalance.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-costs-4064878

 

But @Renegade7 has been pretty consistent this election cycle about his support for MFA.  And that chart is a pretty strong argument in support of his position.  ACA has slowed down the rate  of increase, but it still may not be enough.

 

 

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Eight-year-old Blake Collie was at the swimming pool when he got a frightening headache. His parents rushed him to the emergency room only to learn he had a brain aneurysm. Blake spent nearly two months in the hospital.

 

His family did not have traditional health insurance. “We could not afford it,” said his father, Mark Collie, a freelance photographer in Washington, N.C.

 

Instead, they pay about $530 a month through a Christian health care sharing organization to pay members’ medical bills. But the group capped payments for members at $250,000, almost certainly far less than the final tally of Blake’s mounting medical bills.

 

“Just trust God,” the nonprofit group, Samaritan Ministries, in Peoria, Ill., said in a statement about its coverage, and advises its members that “there is no coverage, no guarantee of payment.”

 

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Metro city sues drug manufacture over ’97,500% price increase’ for seizure medicine

 

MARIETTA, Ga. — The city of Marietta is suing a drug manufacturer because it claims the company jacked up the price of a specific drug 97,500%.

 

The lawsuit, filed in federal court, claims one city employee needs the drug Acthar, which is used to treat seizures in small children.

 

“Acthar used to cost $40, but Mallinckrodt has raised the price of the drug to over $39,000 per vial,” the city claims in the lawsuit. “This eye-popping 97,500% price increase is the result of unlawful and unfair conduct by Mallinckrondt. The city has expended over $2 million for just one patient covered by the city’s self-funded health plan.”

 

The suit is filed in the Northern District of Georgia and requests compensatory and punitive damages.

 

Atlanta pharmacist Ira Katz said Acthar is what’s called a “biologic” and they can be classified as specialty drugs.

 

“They put them into the specialty class, and the prices are outrageous, just outrageous,” Katz said.

 

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My Journey Through Tijuana for the Best Surgery $2,000 Can Buy

 

While the United States government cracks down on people crossing from Mexico in the hope of a better life, a growing number of Americans are crossing the border for affordable health care. Most American politicians wouldn’t dare compare our health care system to Mexico’s, even as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised to reform the country’s public system to make it as good as public healthcare in Europe. However, workers in Mexico’s public hospitals say they are currently experiencing catastrophic supply and staffing shortages; by one account, it’s the country’s worst public health care crisis in 40 years. But Mexico’s health care system also has a flourishing network of private doctors and hospitals that offer care at a fraction of the cost without insurance in Canada or the United States, which is how Mexico takes care of an untold number of uninsured and underinsured Americans.


Jessica Cisneros, a 26-year-old immigration attorney running for Congress in south Texas, is currently uninsured while she works full-time on the campaign, hoping it will pay off with an agenda to bring free, universal health care to the United States. Last July, back when she still had coverage, she needed a root canal, but her insurance didn’t cover dental. Cisneros crossed the border and underwent the procedure in Nuevo Laredo for about $200. (About 1 million Americans traveled abroad for dental care in 2018, according to the medical tourism guide Patients Beyond Borders.) Several weeks ago, Cisneros’ father came down with pneumonia and needed to stay in a hospital. He weighed the cost of using his American insurance against crossing to Nuevo Laredo. Because of his high deductible, he chose a hospital in Mexico.


“A lot of people feel that treatment over there is more effective than it is here,” Cisneros told me. “They feel U.S. insurance companies dictate what kind of treatment you need to receive, and that’s what the doctor follows. But in Mexico, it’s not like that.”

 

Last August, the New York Times profiled a Denver-based medical company called NASH, which pairs American patients with American doctors and sends them both to Cancún for surgery. The arrangement saves employers so much money on hospital costs that patients receive a check from their employer if they choose this option. In 2019, Utah began flying state workers to Tijuana to pick up prescriptions, paying for both the flight and a $500 bonus and still saving money. But perhaps the most visible American medical tourists in Tijuana are the Amish, who regularly come for a cancer hospital that is “considered cheaper, a lot cheaper, and just as good care or better than in the States,” a 25-year-old Amish father from western New York, who gave his name only as Daniel, told me.


Even with our surgery scheduled in Tijuana, I hoped I could still find a comparable cash deal in the United States, but the problem was figuring out the price. Doctors often don’t know how much something will cost or even what their own fee can be. When a hospital bills a patient $2,000 just for the anesthesiologist, for example, the anesthesiologist may only be receiving $500. Private health insurers “have a lot of money and time to devote towards lobbying, and doctors don’t,” explained Dr. Amy Shore, an anesthesiologist based in Los Angeles. While doctors in private practice may be able to work out cash deals with uninsured patients who need surgery, she says that’s a rarity: “With the hospital administration, and the insurance companies in there, it’s not really under our control anymore.”

 

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