The Trump administration plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans, a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.
The move will eliminate a program that is giving insurance companies an estimated $3.6 billion in subsidies this year to blunt increases in premiums for the Medicare prescription plans, known as Part D. The program will end after 2026, according to administration officials.
High drug costs are a perennial issue—especially for seniors on fixed incomes—and healthcare affordability is expected to be a focus in the midterm elections. Roughly 25 million people have Part D plans, and they will learn about their 2027 rates in the fall. Medicare drug coverage premiums are rising because the plans have been hit by growing expenses for GLP-1 medications and other specialty drugs.
Original WSJ article paywalled.
It makes me angry with myself that I don’t care anymore.
As you said, they voted for this.
Fuck those people. Maybe if this were still the first term, but its not, they went gleefully running back.
Fuck those people. Boo hoo, your drugs are unaffordable and you will die without them. You wanted this. Everyne fucking told you this and all the other awful shit happening was going to happen. But you picked it anyway.
Eh, I wouldn’t be angry with yourself about it. I feel largely the same most of the time. I think it’s natural to stop having sympathy for people when they have been told and demonstrated the effects of electing the fucking guy over and over. They want the blood of so many different groups of innocent people, why give a shit about what happens to them?
At the same time, I don’t really want anyone to die because they can’t afford healthcare.