Obamacare saved $2.3 trillion in healthcare spending to date and saved families an average of $4000

[exGOPer]

Your claiming that Obama phased out Medicare Part D drug coverage. This is patently false. Medicare Part D is still in existence today. Obama simply made it more expensive and worse.

Go read about Medicare Part D on the U.S. government Medicare website.
https://www.medicare.gov/drug-coverage-part-d

Your continual ignorance and fabrication is unreal.

Blah blah blah

Nearly 12 million people with Medicare have saved over $26 billion on prescription drugs since 2010

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-...saved-over-26-billion-prescription-drugs-2010

Tell me it isn't real because of your feels about the black guy Obamacare

 

[gwb-trading]

Blah blah blah

Nearly 12 million people with Medicare have saved over $26 billion on prescription drugs since 2010

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-...saved-over-26-billion-prescription-drugs-2010

Tell me it isn't real because of your feels about the black guy Obamacare

Are you trying to tell me that the costs for Medicare Part D and the drug price co-pays have gone down since 2010 --- good luck with that.

 

[exGOPer]

Are you trying to tell me that the costs for Medicare Part D and the drug price co-pays have gone down since 2010 --- good luck with that.

It's not me who is telling you this, it's the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services telling you that. I don't need luck when the conclusions are there in black and white by a reputed organization.

 

[gwb-trading]

It's not me who is telling you this, it's the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services telling you that. I don't need luck when the conclusions are there in black and white by a reputed organization.

So as the article says they receive discount on drugs "thanks to ACA" but still spent more on drugs every single year.

So without the "discounts" these seniors would spent an additional $2,272 since the enactment of ACA (this is over many years). Yet the article never addresses the impact of seniors paying more for drugs year after year.

And you never address that this report is not a CMS study --- it is an announcement from the Obama administration posted on the CMS website -- "Today’s announcement is part of the Administration’s broader strategy to improve the health care system..."

 

[exGOPer]

So as the article says they receive discount on drugs "thanks to ACA" but still spent more on drugs every single year.

So without the "discounts" these seniors would spent an additional $2,272 since the enactment of ACA (this is over many years). Yet the article never addresses the impact of seniors paying more for drugs year after year.

And you never address that this report is not a CMS study --- it is an announcement from the Obama administration posted on the CMS website -- "Today’s announcement is part of the Administration’s broader strategy to improve the health care system..."

You may want to read the actual report which quotes CMS officials before dismissing the report that doesn't fit your narrative.

The fact is that ACA makes a lot of changes to Medicare Part D that reduced spending - Republicans ran on this very fact in 2010 and 2012 but suddenly none of you remember it.

Read for yourself

"

After initially estimating that the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 would save Medicare $7.7 billion over a decade, the CBO discovered the law's changes to the drug discount program would actually save $11.8 billion during that timeframe.


Despite saving Medicare potentially billions of dollars, Republican think tanks, advocacy organizations and consulting firms have launched a grassroots effort to void the Part D changes now that they know their true financial impact. They argue that the increased financial burden on drugmakers could reduce the number of products they'll offer under Part D or siphon money from research and development efforts for new drugs.

"It could endanger access to medicines, many of which actually reduce net long-term Medicare costs by preventing expensive hospital stays, surgeries and other therapies," the Citizens Against Government Waste, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, the Coalition to Reduce Spending and numerous others said in joint letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan last month."


https://www.modernhealthcare.com/ar...d-savings-by-4-billion-due-to-oversight-lapse