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| DATE | 2025-07-29 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Medicare Part D Drug Plan Premiums Set to Rise
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You wouldn't THINK this would be possible since they pay NOTHING to
Healthcare Providers... like Pharmacists and Doctors, but give money
away for FREE to patients as OTC card benefits...
But there is it... the greatest kickback scandal in US or World History
just continuing to fraud the nation...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/insurance/medicare-part-d-drug-plan-premiums-set-to-rise/ar-AA1Jstdu
Premiums for Medicare drug plans are set to increase sharply next year,
due to rising costs, regulatory changes and cutbacks to a subsidy program.
The subsidy program, which sent extra federal funds to the private
insurers that offer the drug benefit—known as Part D—had largely
shielded seniors from rising monthly bills in 2025.
It pumped an extra $6.2 billion of federal payments into the Part D
plans this year, according to a Medicare official. The Trump
administration is set to cut spending on that program by about 40% in 2026.
Officials with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said they
are seeking to blunt the impact of increases in negotiations with
insurers about the companies’ bids for next year’s Part D plans. And
they are maintaining part of the subsidy initiative, which was launched
by the Biden administration and had come under criticism by Republicans.
Medicare officials said premiums are still expected to go up “a lot.”
“This is all about trying to maintain affordability against a massively
increasing backdrop of expense,” said Chris Klomp, the head of the
Center for Medicare. But, he said, the Trump administration felt that
maintaining the full subsidy program would have benefited a handful of
insurers and cost an “enormous, excess amount of taxpayer money.”
The premium increase, which will vary widely depending on the plan, will
hit a politically sensitive constituency of millions of seniors who
purchase the plans, which cover drugs, alongside the traditional
Medicare medical benefits. It may also push more Medicare enrollees into
Medicare Advantage plans, the private-insurer version of Medicare, which
wrap in drug coverage.
Medicare officials did not release expected average premium costs, but
said the subsidies that remain would save Medicare enrollees with drug
plans $13.50 per month on average off of the higher rates.
Insurers have been flagging higher patient drug spending as an issue
across all of their lines of business, and their higher bids for the
Part D plans likely reflect that rising expense. But insurers are also
facing higher costs and more risk on the Medicare drug plans because of
a Part D program redesign mandated by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
The redesign reduced some Medicare enrollees’ out-of-pocket costs for
medications, among other changes that largely kicked in this year, but
required insurers to shoulder more of the costs.
This year, the extra subsidies to stabilize stand-alone Part D plan
premiums, which was billed as a way to help plans gradually shift to the
redesign, added an extra $15 a month in federal payments to insurers per
Part D plan. And it capped the year-over-year overall average premium
increase at $35 for 2025, along with limiting the insurers’ risk of losses.
For 2026, the slimmed-down subsidies program will add just $10 a month
in subsidies, cap the year-over-year increase at $50, and get rid of the
new limits on insurers’ risk of losses, Medicare officials said.
The extra subsidy program took effect in 2025 and was originally
supposed to last three years. Without the extra federal subsidies,
average monthly premiums for basic Part D plans would have been between
$42 and $46.50 this year, according to an estimate from consulting firm
Avalere Health. Instead, the average premium for those plans was around
$36, the firm calculated—roughly an 18% difference.
“Premiums would have spiked pretty substantially” this year without the
project, said Kylie Stengel, a principal at Avalere.
With the extra subsidies in place, average premiums—for all stand-alone
Part D plans, not just the skinnier basic ones—were roughly flat between
2024 and 2025, according to KFF, a health-research nonprofit.
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These pricks are getting huge kickbacks (CVS, Express Scripts) on new
drugs that cost thousands a dollar per month. The Latest Konazole
analogue nail fungus solition is $4000 and much of it is kickbacks.
Nothing matters to these animals. They will suck every penny out while
giving Medicare patients the OTC card bones, several hundred dollars of
CASH benefits. Bribing patients to use your services would be CRIMINAL
in any other business and more than a few MDs and Pharmacists has gone
to jail for this.
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So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
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DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
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Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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