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Anonymous ID: 99ece0 Dec. 7, 2018, 1:59 p.m. No.4203033   🗄️.is 🔗kun

House set to vote on bill cracking down on drug companies overcharging Medicaid

 

The House is expected to vote next week on a bill to crack down on drug companies that overcharge the government, according to two House aides.

The bipartisan bill is aimed at stopping a repeat of the actions from Mylan, the maker of EpiPen, which made headlines last year for overcharging the Medicaid program for its commonly used product by as much as $1.27 billion over 10 years.

The bill, from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), allows the government to fine drug companies that misclassify their drugs as generics in order to give smaller discounts to the government.

Mylan, the EpiPen maker, paid a settlement of $465 million last year for misclassifying its drug in that way.

 

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/420335-house-set-to-vote-on-bill-cracking-down-on-drug-companies-overcharging

Anonymous ID: 99ece0 Dec. 7, 2018, 2:40 p.m. No.4203509   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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“I quit when medicine was placed under State control, some years ago,” said Dr. Hendricks. “Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I would not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward.

 

I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything—except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire, or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, only ‘to serve.’ That a man who’s willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards—never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy.”

 

“I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind—yet what is it that they expect to depend on when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn.

 

Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in their operating rooms and hospital wards that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled. It is not safe if he is the sort of many who resents it—and still less safe if he is the sort who doesn’t.”

 

Dr. Hendricks

Atlas Shrugged

By Ayn Rand, 1957