That's what this article from Medical Marketing & Media should have been titled (its given title is "President's plan closes doughnut hole, bans 'pay for delay'")
What does Obama think piling huge fees on pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers is going to do? It's going to kill innovation and drive up the price of health care...duh?
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The "donut hole" is the closest thing to HSA that Medicare has. It asks seniors to actually care about the cost of drugs they demand. And it works to do that. Seniors will choose good generics instead of latest brand name drugs, and THIS reduces health care costs--not rationing, not meddling in the business affairs of manufacturers. Just people deciding on the value of their purchases.
Why Obama would get rid of the donut hole, trading it for more government control of business and healthcare decisions, is beyond me. (Ok, I know why HE would WANT to, but why we'd LET him is beyond me.)
--another rational pharmacist
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