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The first disease, Covid, had similarities to “Medicare for All. “
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By Margot Sanger-Katz
During the 3 years, the U. S. The U. S. government has been conducting a single-payer health care experiment for a disease.
This era largely ended last week with the expiration of the Covid-19 public health emergency. For Covid, the government bought vaccines and medicines in bulk and distributed them to everyone who wanted them, as part of a package of legal emergency measures. through Congress for as long as the White House said they needed them. It required insurers to pay for all covid tests and paid for testing services when other uninsured people used them. He guaranteed hospital expenses for anyone needing hospitalization for covid.
Now that the official government emergency is over, those systems are gradually being phased out. Some other people will still have to get loose Covid tests, if their insurance needs to cover them that way. Other people will have to pay copays or deductibles. for those tests.
If you have insurance, you can get free Covid vaccines. But if you are not insured, you may have to pay out of pocket starting next year.
And what you pay for antiviral drugs like Paxlovid will depend on the type of insurance you have.
As for covid hospitalizations, they will now be like any other hospitalization, likely subject to mass deductibles or coinsurance, just like the hospitalizations of other people in recent years who have had non-covid pneumonia, even if their ailments were only as severe and mandatory several of the same treatments.
Most likely, the transition will be confusing and bumpy. The main points of how your Covid remedy will be covered will depend a lot on your insurance plan. And the exact change from loose to non-loose for some remedies will be unpredictable, due to the depletion of government supplies.
But of course, the U. S. fitnesscare formula. The U. S. for all other diseases tends to be confusing and uneven. Patients with other conditions, such as cancer, arthritis, hepatitis C or diabetes, have faced those dangers. These diseases are also primary public fitness problems. .
Democrats in Congress are pushing for a policy that would limit the amount other people have to pay for insulin, which many diabetic patients ration for cost reasons. But this approach would also be restricted to one class of drugs, for a disease.
Proponents of the existing formula say it deploys market forces to keep prices low, inspire innovation and restrict treatments. Allowing other people to get loose tests without restrictions, for example, may also have caused some testing services to rate exorbitant prices, such as my colleague Sarah Kliff. Reported. The government’s mass procurement of two mRNA vaccines could have hampered the study and success of other types of vaccines that could be larger in some cases.
But critics have long said the disparate nature of the U. S. formula is not the same. Unpredictable admission prices are harmful, forcing you to avoid mandatory care or suffer monetary hardship in a crisis. For fans of a “Medicare for all” formula, in which the government insures everyone and promises maximum care for the loose, regularly subsidized through taxes, Covid has been a test case.
What you think of this update may reveal what you think about our formula as a whole.
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