1. According to the article, how do drug makers typically decide what price to charge?
2. How do insurance companies respond to this?
3. Who has the authority to decide what is medically necessary?
4. How do Medicare & Medicaid decide who gets care? Is it any different than insurance companies?
5. Explain how negotiating drug prices would work to lower prices.
6. Why doesn't Medicare or Medicaid (as the largest insurers) negotiate prices of drugs?
7. ISNT THAT INSANE?? Who do you think is responsible for that little gem of a policy?
8. Why would a tax increase to support single payer not hit taxpayers as hard as some opponents argue?
9. What is the author's "simple pitch" for single payer?
10. Who would be considered "winners" if single payer was implemented?
11. Who would be considered "losers" if single payer was implemented?
12. What groups worked to prevent a "public option" from being added to ACA (Obamacare)?
13. How does SCOTUS act as a potential hurdle to a single payer system?
1. Dealers determine what price to sell drugs based on the market and demand as well as the manufacturing price. If access to drugs is rationed, then companies will have a chance to grossly over-inflate the prices.
2. They can only respond to more serious cases, since there wouldn't be enough drugs to help everyone.
3. Insurance companies get to reserve that right,
4. Medicare and Medicaid decides who gets what all based on cost. If something necessary costs too much, regardless of how necessary it is, it is not being administered. A lot of insurance companies do this too. Going away from what we are using as our source, there are insurance companies that will pay regardless of price, and they pay for things based on need rather than if they can afford it or not.
5. If you can negotiate that the rationing of a certain drug be decreased, then you will have the opportunity to pay less to receive the same drug. This controlled factor of rationing gives power to keeping stability, even when the necessity of a certain drug changes quickly.
6. There are laws that protect against this from happening for some reason.
7. Interest groups working with the medical drug companies, to maximize profit over valuing human lives.
8. It would only slightly increase taxes, while increasing the benefits at a better rate, so people would not really feel a financial blow. (Especially in better health)
9. Th government covers all legal citizens/residents, by mailing them a Medicare Card. Helps legal people whil destroying illegal people.
10. Winners would be the people who need the healthcare the most, but can't get it right now due prices being too high, or the people who are missing certain treatments now, since the money has to be used carefully.
11. People who already have solid health insurance that covers them even if the cost is too high are the ones who are most likely going to be hurt by this.
12. Medical groups, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and community hospitals all worked together to make sure it didn't happen.
13.There is a good chance SCOTUS will prefer that the federal government branches distance themselves a little from the health care field and policy.
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