Jared S. Hopkins
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109 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard Nov 2024
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variability in all of this, like the country's big, there's lots of different health plans.
The question is how much variability is appropriate.
Lawmakers always have Medicare and cost seniors high up on their priority list.
I think we've seen that over the years.
What's important is that pharmacy benefit managers, these middlemen, have been caught in the crossfire of lawmakers in D.C.
for the last couple of years.
And there have been a number of bills and legislation considered that would impact the
supporters say will help seniors and patients.
But I don't think any of that's actually become law just yet.
Seniors, they might not know about these numbers that I'm throwing out there right now, right?
Because this is the back end of Medicare.
But this affects co-pays, and this can affect co-insurance.
So ultimately, it means that seniors might end up paying more for their drugs than they might have to.
It might mean that the government is paying more than it should be for certain drugs.
We asked the agency that oversees Medicare for comment, and they said that they do not comment on analyses of Medicare.
Many seniors we talked to had really no idea about any of this because when they pick a plan, they're looking at what their drug costs them out of pocket, what their copay or their coinsurance looks like.
But what could be more helpful is knowing what a total drug costs.
Because then if they are paying a percentage of that cost as their coinsurance, maybe that would affect which plan they want to go to.
There's people who – there's sort of consultants that people hire to help seniors pick a good plan sometimes because some of this stuff is so complicated.
Sometimes it is.
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