Friday, April 18, 2008

Copayments - the veil of tiers

Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama has lent his support to concerns over seriously-ill patients, after it emerged this week that US insurers are increasingly charging members being treated with the most expensive drugs a percentage of the costs of these medications, instead of the standard set copayment.

Read more about Tiers 4 and 5

1 comment:

pmv said...

this happened to me, in the federal health plan(Same one Obama has)

Kaiser permanente would not refill my Interferon on dec 30 for 30$ but were happy to do so on Jan 3 for 300$

No catastrofic limit!!!!!

This is an outrage!!!!!!

I have hep c from a health care srewup 23 years ago!( Taited blood transfusion)

Just another issue i CAN BASH REPUBLICANS WITH.....