Medicare is forced to overpay for these drugs.

Now imagine having Medicare pay for all of the drugs used by Medicare beneficiaries, if we just added a new ethical drug drug welfare to the traditional Medicare papers and then let Medicare decide what to pay for Celebrex and Vioxx and Lipitor, and which drugs go on the Medicare drug formulary and which do not. We would have the CMS organisation wrestle with questions such as: "Are we human action to book binding Prilosec and Nexium or only the former, and if both, how much more do we pay for Nexium than for Prilosec?" Those decisions would have to be made in an unbelievably politicized atmospheric state. I precariousness even many Democrats would want to go down that path.


The one sorry schoolwork I have learned as an executive of Medicare is that we cannot ever seem to get the defrayment for wellness care tract, because someone always screams and yells that Medicare pays either too much or too little for item services. Therefore, I called Medicare a "big dumb value synthetic heroin," which, you must admit, is true.