Note, this is for Medicaid, apparently not Medicare, yet. As to individual private insurance policies, time will tell. Arkansas, California, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia
(CNSNews.com) –
16 states have set a limit on the number of prescription drugs they will cover for Medicaid patients, according to Kaiser Health News.
7 of those states, according to Kaiser Health News, have enacted or tightened those limits in just the last two years.
In Alabama, Medicaid patients are now limited to one brand-name drug, and HIV and psychiatric drugs are excluded.
Illinois has limited Medicaid patients to just four prescription drugs as a cost-cutting move, and patients who need more than four must get permission from the state. [snip]
Medicaid is a federal program that is carried out in partnership with state governments. It forms an important element of President Barack Obama's health-care plan because under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act--AKA Obamcare--a larger number of people will be covered by Medicaid, as the income cap is raised for the program.
With both the expanded Medicaid program and the federal subsidy for health-care premiums that will be available to people earning up to 400 percent of the poverty level, a larger percentage of the population will be wholly or partially dependent on the government for their health care under Obamacare than are now.
(continue reading at CNS, hat tip Yael)
This not new. It has been going on for many years.
Posted by: Grouch at Right Truth | July 31, 2012 at 12:10 PM
Medicaid,Medicare and all private Health Insurance's will be desolved ..what need of them when goverment establish's a "one size" fit's all ..watch for 401k and IRA's to be snatched up and SS to be tossed in obama's health care (cooking) pot ..healthcare won't be just a national health program but it goes along with "spread the wealth & health ,the one size fits all (UN) agenda .. Did the voter's (those who voted obama ) read obama's global goverance Bill he pushed while senator ?? he still has the same agenda ..
Is there anyone who can tell me why obama is still sitting in the Peoples House...that is legally let to sit in the WH??? Health Care really is "Un-Constitutional" obama is a tyrant,worse he has all the marking's of a Dictator
Posted by: Janet | July 31, 2012 at 05:59 PM
Medicaid is getting worse by the minute and I truly feel for those that have no choice but to have this insurance.
There are some honest people who desperately need their medications.
If only the SOB's at Medicaid would just one day experience the hell their insured patients suffer they wouldn't be so cruel.
Welcome to socialized medicine.
Posted by: Leticia | July 31, 2012 at 06:16 PM
Obamacare is not about health care at all. It's all about being able to control you and me.For most of the dumb,stupid public, that might be true.
Most people are too stupid to understand that.
We must, at all cost defeat Obama and repeal Obamacare or we'll all be left with 3rd world health care in the future.
Posted by: Roy_wr | August 16, 2012 at 05:34 PM