Proof retired seniors are not ‘choosing’ Medicare Advantage, rather they are being coerced by employers. This today from State of NC Health Plan:

Alarming.
“It’s a six-month production cycle...So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.”

Let's make care more difficult for the elderly and disabled?

I & many other patients with blood clots…especially those with cancer associated clots & pregnant women.…have taken enoxaparin. The generic is still wildly expensive of this life saving blood thinner. Now from the FTC, we learn PBMs profited from dramatic mark ups ranging 100-1000%.

FTC to discuss new findings from PBM study. Talk is good, but patients can’t keep waiting for action—from Congress or the FTC. The facts are already abundant & clear. Nontransparent PBM profit maxing practices put patient lives at risk. As premium paying consumers, we deserve robust protections.

And days after annual enrollment ended, leaving Medicare patients without access to their doctors. If consumers can only make insurance changes once a year why are insurers able to make changes year round?

Why does one unelected billionaire have the power to essentially govern? The CR includes needed PBM reform, which is bipartisan. Patients can’t continue to wait for reform.

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A health care deal BROADER on PBM (pharmacy benefit manager) reform you say? 🤔 After years of inaction despite wide bipartisan support, that would truly be a Festivus miracle.

If only 3 mega PBMs control 80% of prescription benefits yet there are 3,553 different prices for the same medication, maybe PBMs are not truly negotiating the lowest price for premium paying consumers as they say. 🤔

Giving Blue Sky a try. Inviting patient advocates & health care concerned folks to connect.