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Trump administration touts lower prices for 15 Medicare drugs

NEW YORK (AP) — Pharmaceutical companies have agreed to slash the Medicare prices for 15 …
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https://www.newsbeep.com/274207/

The negotiations were enabled by a law enacted during the Biden administration without any Republican votes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/health/drugs-prices-medicare.html

Prices for Drugs in Medicare’s Second Round of Negotiations

Prices will take effect in 2027.

Ozempic and Rybelsus, for diabetes, $277; Wegovy, for obesity, $386
Trelegy Ellipta, for lung conditions, $175
Xtandi, for prostate cancer, $7,004
Pomalyst, for blood cancer, $8,650
Ibrance, for breast cancer, $7,871
Ofev, for lung conditions, $6,350
Linzess, for gastrointestinal conditions, $136
Calquence, for blood cancers, $8,600
Austedo and Austedo XR, for neurological diseases, $4,093
Breo Ellipta, for lung conditions, $67
Tradjenta, for diabetes, $78
Xifaxan, for liver and gastrointestinal problems, $1,000
Vraylar, for depression, $770
Janumet and Janumet XR, for diabetes, $80
Otezla, for inflammatory conditions, $1,650

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Bad reporting: "...with the increase likely to erode next year's cost-of-living increase for millions of Social Security recipients."

With the Medicare hike more than 3x the cost of living adjustment, every recipient gets less than inflation. For millions it will be a disaster:
"People with lower monthly benefits could even see an effective COLA of zero, the group said."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medicare-2026-premium-part-b-hike-social-security-cola/

#media #SocialSecurity #Medicare #poverty

U.S. Announces Negotiated Prices for 15 Drugs Under Medicare

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/health/drugs-prices-medicare.html

The 15 drugs include widely used inhalers, such as Breo Ellipta, and treatments for cancer, diabetes and depression.

Not long ago we were one country one people A beacon of hope 4 all democracies & yes we had socialist policies 2 fix some of our problems #Disasterrelief #medicare #SS #Unemploymentinsurance they were put in place 2 cushion the sting 4 ALL citizens in #America it was not a problem it was a solution.

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Meanwhile, #GOP raises per month cost of #Medicare so it eats up the #SocialSecurity cost of living adjustment

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@Lino0876 Yes I do have a CGM. I just upgraded to the type that actually does continuous checks every five minutes, I have no idea how. #Medicare ran us round and round the mulberry bush about paying for it, so we decided it was worth paying out of picket. It comes to about $80 a month, which all things considered isn’t terrible.

"A higher Medicare premium🚨set to go into effect in 2026 will push the monthly change >$200 for the 1st time, with the increase likely to erode next year's COL increase for millions of #SocialSecurity recipients."

2026 will be a difficult year, for the US/globally: #Hunger, sickness, suffering, death... much of it bc of the #TrumpRegime/enablers: #Republicans, #oligarchs, #media...
#Medicare #ACA #Fascism #Immigrants #Detention #Deportations #GOPDeathCult #Protest #USPol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medicare-2026-premium-part-b-hike-social-security-cola/

Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement – The American Prospect

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Health and Social Policy

Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement

The GOP is too wedded to free markets and scornful of the welfare state to ever make anything in health care work.

by Ryan Cooper, November 18, 2025

Republicans, for once, are sounding downright squeamish about onrushing massive cuts to Obamacare subsidies, with premiums on the exchanges expected to more than double on average starting next year. GOP House committee chairs are reportedly having some “brainstorming sessions” about what to do, and House Speaker Mike Johnson claims that they will “be rolling out some of those ideas” at some point.

So far, the genius idea in the lead is Trump’s pitch to reroute subsidies from health insurance companies to the American people, so they can buy health care. (House Republicans have already filed a bill that looks like this.) When asked whether people wouldn’t then just use that money to buy health insurance, Trump replied, “Ahh … some may. I mean, they’ll be negotiating prices.” Congratulations, folks, you now get to be your own private dealmaker with the health care system, and with your purchasing power and risk pool of one household, I’m sure you’ll get the best price!

More from Ryan Cooper

The stupidity is the point. For decades now, the Republican Party has been dedicated to the proposition that rich people are too highly taxed and the working and middle classes get too many benefits from the government. With the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, they have finally caught the car. Medicaid and Obamacare have been slashed to free up budget headroom for tax cuts heavily slanted to the wealthy. Republicans don’t have a “health care plan” per se because this is their plan: to take your health care funding and give it to Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the rest of the fascist billionaire class.

American conservatism is a strange political beast. Like all conservatisms across the world, it stands in defense of hierarchy and privilege, but it is welded clumsily to 19th-century orthodox capitalism. By this view, all income should come from working or owning property, and all goods and services should be obtained through the market. It would be unjust for anyone to receive a welfare benefit from the government, because they did not work to earn it. This is a philosophical problem for conservatism, as George Scialabba writes, because capitalism regularly and wildly disrupts the established social order as technologies and businesses evolve. (For the record, this view is also very stupid.)

But it’s a much more practical problem for a Republican trying to write a health care policy. Health insurance is straightforwardly impossible to square with capitalist morality for reasons a child can understand. Most obviously, people routinely get very sick or injured through no fault of their own, and require care that is far more expensive than they can afford out of pocket. Sometimes people have chronic conditions that cost many multiples of what they could ever possibly earn. Therefore, unlike the market for car or home insurance, where each person is charged exactly what they are statistically expected to claim (plus a margin of profit), any functioning health insurance scheme must have systematic transfers from the young and healthy to the elderly and sick.

With a pure market approach, only the very rich will be able to get all the health care they need. Even people making well into six figures will not be able to afford elaborate surgery or cutting-edge therapies out of pocket. The poor—or really anyone living paycheck to paycheck—will not get health care at all. Before Obamacare, that was the reality for many, with the only “insurance” available on the market being de facto worthless if you ever actually needed it.

This is what led early socialists and social democrats to advocate for national health insurance, run by the government. If the market is a fundamentally stupid way to pay for medical treatment, then throw everyone onto the same program, and fund it out of taxes. That way, the risk pool and the funding base will be as large as possible, people will be charged based on their ability to pay, and all citizens will be permanently insured. And historically, the fact that both the elderly and the poor were largely uninsured up through the early 1960s was a major motivation for the creation of Medicare and Medicaid.

Republicans have hated Medicare and Medicaid since the moment they were proposed, because they’re welfare programs. Ronald Reagan got his start in politics with an unhinged mini-documentary claiming Medicare would lead to a totalitarian dictatorship. Historically, Medicare has been too politically secure to touch—at least for now—but Republicans finally took a trillion-dollar bite out of Medicaid in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Editor’s Note: Featured top image by WP AI.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement – The American Prospect

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This is a really terrible idea for #Medicare.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5617927-congress-medicare-reform-dangers/amp/

A bill introduced in the US Congress is a trap. The auto-enrollment #Medicare bill would lock enrollees into low coverage Medicare Advantage plan for 3 years, unless they opt out. https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5617927-congress-medicare-reform-dangers/

Congress’s Medicare ‘auto-enrollment’ bill is a trap . Proposed Medicare bill could limit seniors' healthcare options

The bill, sponsored by Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) and introduced in May, would automatically enroll new #Medicare beneficiaries into the lowest-premium Medicare Advantage plan available in their ZIP code unless they actively opt out. Even more troubling, it would lock them into that plan for three full years, limiting their ability to switch back to traditional Medicare or select a new plan except under narrowly defined hardship circumstances
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A Good editorial about it: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5617927-congress-medicare-reform-dangers/

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3467/text

:PDF: https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr3467/BILLS-119hr3467ih.pdf

Edit, add image and links to Congress about it

119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3467

To amend title XVIII to reform the Medicare Advantage program.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 15, 2025
Mr. Schweikert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL
To amend title XVIII to reform the Medicare Advantage program.

"But the program’s rapidly rising premiums and out-of-pocket charges came into sharp relief last week when Medicare officials announced that the standard Part B premium, which covers services such as physician visits and hospital outpatient care, will be $202.90 a month — up 9.7 percent. Next year is the first time the monthly premium will exceed $200 — and it will be 66 percent higher than a decade ago."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/what-to-know-about-the-nearly-10-climb-in-a-key-medicare-expense-for-2026.html

#healthcare #medicare #hospitals #aging #retirement