Plan to Limit Some Drugs in Medicare Is Criticized

[Yo_Mama]

17. Oh, you shouldn't be confused.

Just think about changing the rules on immune-suppressant drugs. The newer classes work far better, and the teams of medical personnel who manage transplant patients have a lot of experience and focus on managing rejection. The cost for even one patient who rejects a transplant when they wouldn't have otherwise can be two lives - that patient's and the patient who would have otherwise gotten the organ.

The only possible rationale for doing this would be to make transplant programs reject Medicare patients because they couldn't manage them properly afterwards.

If they wanted to manage drug costs, just make it legal to get the same drugs outside the US. But no, they take this ugly tack.

As for failing to fund schizophrenia drugs, that is brutal and cruel.

And then to round out the "benefits", once the patient is depressed because they are ill you stop them from getting adequate treatment for depression.