Thanks Obama - They should call it Obama Shots -

[packman]

https://i.insider.com/5e5983d8fee23d3e6b6376a3?width=800&format=jpeg&auto=webp
(Pix of Obama signing ACA)

Under the ACA, health insurers must cover federally-recommended vaccines at no cost for most people, according to John Cogan, a professor of health insurance law and financial regulation at the University of Connecticut.

"Everyone under Obamacare would be covered under this vaccination without cost-sharing," Cogan told Business Insider. That would extend to the health insurance people get through their employers, as well as to most health insurance programs like Medicaid for children and people with low incomes, he said
...
President Obama's signature law — passed in 2010 —bans insurers from applying co-pays, deductibles, and co-insurance to vaccinations recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ensuring they're basically free for patients covered under those plans.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-vaccine-free-for-patients-result-of-obamacare-2020-2?op=1

[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page

Big pharma can't be happy

[mr_lebowski]

5. Wouldn't they still get paid by the insurance co's and government? I'd think it helps Pharma (nt)

[ehrnst]

14. At this point, whatever helps people get care is, and should be the priority.

As the link in the article says, it would be free to the patient.

Attempting to punishing pharmaceutical companies by refusing to subsidize the cost of vaccines and rx drugs is counterproductive to health care as a right if it restricts access by people who need prescription drugs.

Would you oppose assistance for someone to pay their heating bill in the winter because that would "help Fossil Fuel?"

Until there is an alternative source for medications, we will need to purchase them from pharmaceutical companies.

[mr_lebowski]

15. Did I say I opposed it?

The Post I responded to suggested that Big Pharma would be mad re: the news in the OP, I didn't see why they would be.

Was just asking in case there was something I missed/wasn't getting.

[ehrnst]

16. Point taken. But I don't know of scenario where purchasing rx drugs would not

"help" pharma, as there is no alternative source.

[IronLionZion]

11. Pharma stocks shot up after the ACA was enacted

they are very happy that more people have access to their products and insurance has to pay for it

[malaise]

18. Valid point

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R...for visibility...nt

[Leghorn21]

3. YES!! "The Obama Ouchie"

[krispos42]

4. K&R

[Tanuki]

6. Trump's HHS Sec. Azar didn't seem aware of this in his shameful testimony

before Congress, in which he repeatedly refused to assure that an affordable vaccine would be available to anyone who needed it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/02/27/health-secretary-alex-azar-refuses-to-guarantee-coronavirus-vaccine-would-be-affordable-for-all/amp/

[TNNurse]

8. Is there anyone Trump has appointed who knows anything about their field of responsibility????

[Marcuse]

10. No. Trump won't appoint or retain anyone who may be smarter than he.

[IronLionZion]

12. Dumbass fired all those folks

and replaced them with unqualified loyal cronies who agree with anything he says

[2naSalit]

7. K&R

[sdfernando]

9. This is an awesome and often overlooked part of Obamacare

As ensured millions of people get the vaccinations they need to stay healthy...


...but seems to me that if CDC doesn't recommend the vaccine then big pharma can charge what they want. I don't think the orange lardass will care how it looks....his insane base will think (actually they won't think) he is doing them a favor.


Call me a cynic if you want

[FoxNewsSucks]

13. "Under the ACA, health insurers must cover federally-recommended vaccines at no cost for most people

Who will force MF45 to allow that federal recommendation to be given?

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. This is great to know. nt

[MontanaMama]

19. Kick.

Thanks Obama.