Reform Medicare - Part D Pharmecutical Lobby and Part B IRMAA
1. Create legislation eliminating the pharmaceutical lobby. Pharmaceutical companies lobby the entire medical industry, while their drugs are under patent protection & no lower cost generic options are available, to prescribe their product to patients and recoup "research/development" overhead. Although drugs are beneficial and even critical to some, they are generally over prescribed costing Medicare Part D millions ...more »
1. Create legislation eliminating the pharmaceutical lobby. Pharmaceutical companies lobby the entire medical industry, while their drugs are under patent protection & no lower cost generic options are available, to prescribe their product to patients and recoup "research/development" overhead. Although drugs are beneficial and even critical to some, they are generally over prescribed costing Medicare Part D millions of dollars.
2. Reform Medicare Part B - IRMAA. Create a more graduated scale of income [more than 4 categories of moderately adjusted gross income (MAGI)] to increase revenue. Medicare premiums should not be equal for a MAGI of $85k and $107K.
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