Huge Price Jump in Brand-Name Meds, Doctor Payments Lowered, and Amish Exempt from Obama Mandate

By Filed under Interesting Links on January 13, 2010 with 4 comments

Getting ready for health reform: The prices of 416 brand-name medicines have increased by 100%−499%.

Doctors’ payments through the Medicare program are scheduled to be lowered by 21 percent in March. But not in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming — where fees will rise.

ObamaCare mandate doesn’t apply if you’re Amish.

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  1. Bruce says:
    January 13, 2010 at 11:28 am

    How do I sign up to become Amish?

  2. Ken says:
    January 13, 2010 at 11:34 am

    Looks like the big drug companies are making out like bandits in health reform. Is this why they held a big fundraiser the other day to boost Martha Coakley’s bid to replace Ted kennedy as Senator from Massachusetts?

  3. Larry C. says:
    January 13, 2010 at 12:00 pm

    Ken, check this out:

    Reporter roughed up outside Coakley fund-raiser:
    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1225332

  4. Tom H. says:
    January 13, 2010 at 12:20 pm

    Ken, it wasn’t just the big drug companies. All the big insurance companies kicked in too. Sad legacy for Senator Kenndy don’t you think. I didn’t always agree with him, but he was never a tool of the special interests, as his successor appears to be.