Some US health insurance plans are placing antiretroviral drugs in a high-cost category, forcing the patients to pay more for coverage and discriminating against people with HIV, researchers said Wednesday. The study in the New England Journal of Medicine warns that the practice is undermining a key provision of President Barack Obama's health care reform, which set out to end health insurers' use of preexisting conditions to deny coverage to sick people. Under ...Thursday, 29 January 2015
Unfair HIV-Drug Pricing Found in US Health Plans
Some US health insurance plans are placing antiretroviral drugs in a high-cost category, forcing the patients to pay more for coverage and discriminating against people with HIV, researchers said Wednesday. The study in the New England Journal of Medicine warns that the practice is undermining a key provision of President Barack Obama's health care reform, which set out to end health insurers' use of preexisting conditions to deny coverage to sick people. Under ...
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