Blog 3.9

1. They decide based on how desperately the drug is needed
2. They are limiting coverage to patients with more advanced symptoms to limit spending on the drugs.
3. The insurance companies, as they are the ones in charge of directly paying the companies who develop the pills.
4. They, like insurance companies, directly pay hospitals and drug companies. So not really no
5. Other countries have successfully done this to lower prices.
6. There are federal laws that actually ban these programs for negotiating for price reductions with drug companies.
7. Some members of Congress who are on the payroll of the pill companies

8. This tax would replace the many other costs we currently have to pay in our current healthcare system.
9. A Medicare card is mailed to everyone, so everyone receives coverage
10. Relatively disorganized people with low incomes
11. Workers who receive generous tax expenditures for good private coverage, and affluent people who would face large tax increases to finance a single-payer system.
12. Community hospitals, medical groups, and pharmaceutical and medical supply companies.
13. The single-payer system would give rise to debates on the scope of government