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riversedge

(69,731 posts)
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 09:07 AM Sep 2015

Clinton previews plan to expand Obamacare and lower health costs [Hillary Group]



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Hillary Clinton previews plan to expand Obamacare and lower health costs


Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigns in Baton Rouge, La., on Monday. (Jonathan Bachman / Associated Press)

By Evan Halper and Noam N. Levey



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Democrats facing tough elections have been running away from Obamacare in their campaigns almost since the law was passed, but Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking a different approach. She is embracing it.

On the campaign trail, Clinton is leaning into the Affordable Care Act, touting the health insurance mandate as a signature achievement of Democrats as the law — about which the public remains deeply divided — has become firmly embedded in the nation's healthcare system and is delivering sweeping new benefits to millions of voters.


On Tuesday, Clinton will unveil a plan to expand the law's reach with a proposal to force down the prices of prescription drugs. She will call for new federal rules to cap what consumers are forced to pay out of pocket for medicines, and she would allow the federal government to negotiate directly with drug makers to secure lower drug costs for seniors on Medicare.

"I want to do more to bring down the costs for families," Clinton said at a rally here, where she previewed the plan. "It is disgraceful.... Medications for a lot of diseases are going up to thousands of dollars a month."


The plan would allow Americans to buy prescription drugs abroad, where prices are often lower; prohibit drug companies from writing off the cost of advertising; and limit profits the companies can make from drugs developed with the help of federal research subsidies. It would also boost spending at the Food and Drug Administration so prescription drugs could be approved for sale more quickly....................
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Clinton previews plan to expand Obamacare and lower health costs [Hillary Group] (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2015 OP
Good on her JackInGreen Sep 2015 #1
What do you think this means? Thinkingabout Sep 2015 #3
Um...not more than I said JackInGreen Sep 2015 #8
Would it mean there is going to be a bigger staff in order to process the data? Thinkingabout Sep 2015 #9
That's mighty optimistic and I could see it JackInGreen Sep 2015 #11
Don't see where you are trying to go. Thinkingabout Sep 2015 #13
I'm not going anywhere with it JackInGreen Sep 2015 #14
Gotcha but I did not see where there was a rush to push through approvals to result in law suits. Thinkingabout Sep 2015 #15
Oooh. JackInGreen Sep 2015 #16
Wait and see if she gives any details for this --today. riversedge Sep 2015 #5
Lookin forward to it JackInGreen Sep 2015 #7
yup. the waiting game. Hillary's riversedge Sep 2015 #10
If she's glib JackInGreen Sep 2015 #12
In a speeches in Louisiana and Arkansas on Monday, Clinton defended Obamacare, urged states to expan riversedge Sep 2015 #2
ACA has been to SC twice, has been left in place, many more insured Americans and more ability Thinkingabout Sep 2015 #4
Time also has this.... riversedge Sep 2015 #6
Thank you for this, riversedge.. Hillary is not railing against President Obama or Lying about Cha Sep 2015 #17

JackInGreen

(2,975 posts)
1. Good on her
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 09:14 AM
Sep 2015

the rest sounds good, but the "would also boost spending at the Food and Drug Administration so prescription drugs could be approved for sale more quickly" smells like more drug ads, more 'WERE YOU PRESCRIBED....PLEASE CALL THIS ATTORNEY FOR THE CLASS ACTION SUIT' and more re purposed medicine patents.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
9. Would it mean there is going to be a bigger staff in order to process the data?
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 10:45 AM
Sep 2015

I do not see anything there which says the drugs will be "rushed" through the process, just more people to do the work. Jobs for Americans.

JackInGreen

(2,975 posts)
11. That's mighty optimistic and I could see it
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 11:17 AM
Sep 2015

The law of unintended consequences seems to rule the day with pharma though.
I wasn't calling out rush like it's predisposed to happen, but with profit uber alles I'm skeptical. That's allowed innit? Or is the hillary group only for unquestioning true believers?

JackInGreen

(2,975 posts)
14. I'm not going anywhere with it
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 11:30 AM
Sep 2015

Stating an opinion and a hope for better.
Remember that? Before we all started sniping at eachother? Nothing more TKABT, we don't all have to have an election angle on every opinion.

JackInGreen

(2,975 posts)
16. Oooh.
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 02:05 PM
Sep 2015

So I work graves. I watch a lot of late night TV. I was talking about the late night ads founded or no. That's all.

JackInGreen

(2,975 posts)
7. Lookin forward to it
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 10:38 AM
Sep 2015

I'd love to see plans offered head to head though, I'm something like a debate though.
guess we'll have to wait.

riversedge

(69,731 posts)
10. yup. the waiting game. Hillary's
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 10:50 AM
Sep 2015

event starts at 2pm in Iowa. Do not know if streamed or if any of the msm will pick it up.

Later

riversedge

(69,731 posts)
2. In a speeches in Louisiana and Arkansas on Monday, Clinton defended Obamacare, urged states to expan
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 09:26 AM
Sep 2015

I knew she was in Arkansas yesterday--but seems she hopped down to LA also.



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HEALTH CARE
Hillary Clinton taking on drug industry

She is unveiling a plan to drive down the cost of prescriptions.

By Brett Norman

09/22/15, 12:01 AM EDT


Hillary Clinton will launch a broadside against the pharmaceutical industry on Tuesday, rolling out an aggressive plan to drive down prescription drug costs, a populist health care issue largely unconnected with Obamacare that Democrats want to position front and center in 2016.

At a campaign event in Iowa, Clinton will unveil a set of proposals that her campaign says will save well over $100 billion over 10 years — taking those savings mostly from the drug industry but targeting insurers as well.

In a speeches in Louisiana and Arkansas on Monday, Clinton defended Obamacare, urged states to expand Medicaid and said it was time for Republicans to stop vowing to repeal a law that's covering millions.
She also briefly previewed her forthcoming salvo on drug costs.

“It is time to deal with skyrocketing out-of-pocket costs and runaway prescription drug prices,” she said. She referred to a Sunday New York Times report on how a 62-year-old medicine jumped from $13.50 a pill to $750 after a company bought it last month. She added: “Nobody in America should have to choose between buying their medicine and paying their rent.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-prescription-drugs-health-care-213910#ixzz3mTQ1jten

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
4. ACA has been to SC twice, has been left in place, many more insured Americans and more ability
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 10:08 AM
Sep 2015

for health care in the US, just as one of our favorite of Social Security and Medicare, there have been changes and improvements over the years, this too can be improved. She is talking about issues important to us. She was listening in her early campaign stops.

riversedge

(69,731 posts)
6. Time also has this....
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 10:18 AM
Sep 2015



Hillary Clinton will announce a detailed plan to reduce the cost of prescription drugs and build on President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, as she seeks to head off a strong primary challenge from liberal Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Clinton will reveal her plan on Tuesday in Iowa, where Sanders is edging her out in some recent polls. Her proposals would more tightly regulate pharmaceutical companies and aim to significantly reduce drug costs, particularly for seniors.

Under the plan, monthly out-of-pocket costs for all patients would be limited at $250 per month for individuals, which her campaign said would help up to one million Americans. She would also require pharmaceutical companies to pay higher rebates to Medicare in exchange for the federal program insuring prescriptions drugs, a measure her campaign says would save the program $100 billion.



More at link:
http://time.com/4043242/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-health-care/?xid=homepage

Cha

(295,929 posts)
17. Thank you for this, riversedge.. Hillary is not railing against President Obama or Lying about
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 02:43 AM
Sep 2015

him.

And, that's what ACA was set up for.. a good Foundation and she's very aware of that.

This is either when ACA was passed or it was upheld by SCOTUS the first time.. sorry, I don't know which.



She will make it better.. POTUS 44 and POTUS 45..

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