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https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1584777040904929280The plaintiffs explicitly note that this was the state of affairs pre-ACA - that patients could be charged for these key preventive services. This was in fact the point of this provision of the law, to increase access to/ensure that patients could afford these services. (2/4)
https://twitter.com/AliceOllstein/status/1509540453552644096First, let's be clear about what this bill does: it caps patients' out-of-pocket costs. It does not limit what drug cos can charge for insulin. So, though it may save $ for individual patients, it actually costs the system as a whole more money.
https://twitter.com/USCBOcostest/status/1509187627139964930(2/7)
https://twitter.com/NicholasFlorko/status/1491835100744585216Biogen argues that CMS must defer to FDA on whether a drug is "safe and effective," and that CMS cannot "second-guess" FDA on this. One (of many) problems with this is that FDA did not clearly determine Aduhelm to be "safe and effective" - though Biogen suggests they did. (2/5)