Means Testing For Expensive Drugs??

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Lon

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Apparently some Drug Companies are using Means Testing as a way to determine the patient's cost. I know that Johnson & Johnson is doing this. Imbruvica is a drug that would cost the patient that was not Means Tested Approximately $11,600 for 90 capsules of 140MG. Fortunately I was Means Tested and am receiving the drug free for this year. I will be Means Tested again for 2018.
 

I've also read about some drug companies looking at the value of the drugs benefit to the patient when determining the cost of treatment as opposed to pricing the drug based on the cost to produce the drug.

My concern with allowing the drug companies to control this process is that they have a vested interest in determining the price and the value to the consumer.

I don't like the idea of penalizing the rich or the poor when it comes to health care. Instead of cutting taxes and tossing a little candy to the middle class I would like to see the government right size our taxes so that we could provide proper healthcare to all Americans.
 
Thanks, Lon. I figured it was something like that since you were taking it. I have a cousin that is now doing chemo again for her lymphoma and I don't know a lot about it except that she has lost a leg and I admire her for her courage in dealing with it.
 
Aunt Bea said:
.... Instead of cutting taxes and tossing a little candy to the middle class I would like to see the government right size our taxes so that we could provide proper healthcare to all Americans.
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Yes!!!

Same way with charities. I'd rather pay a progressive tax into a fund (with a lock on the box) to be used for charitable purposes with less overhead, than to have private charities wasting money to pay for constant soliciting. Yeah, it provides jobs, but how much do telemarketers make?
 

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