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In reply to the discussion: If you unfairly, wrongly and very publicly attack someone, shouldn't you apologize? [View all]pnwmom
(110,235 posts)He said that his friend told him it would be a waste of time to look at look at plans for his wife outside the exchange because they wouldn't accept her due to her preexisting condition. Which was a lie.
And I wasn't blaming Will for buying whatever policy he chose. I was saying that his friend the agent was feeding him false information. As you know from googling, the drug he needed is on the non-ACA formulary. His agent lied and said the non-ACA insurer wouldn't accept his wife as a customer.
I think maybe we're talking about different OP's. Maybe you missed that first OP of his, where he was cursing out Obama because his wife was denied her medication. The whole post was about his wife and her not being able to get her medication, not about any larger group of vulnerable patients. He made that argument in a different OP on the next day.
But with regard to the larger group of patients, yes, it is a problem that must be addressed. But the whole reason formularies exist is because drug companies price- gouge and drug companies put some drugs on the market that either don't work very well or are simply more costly variations of drugs that work. So it's stupid to focus completely on the insurers and ignore the drug companies that do things like charge $300K a year for a lifesaving C.F. prescription.