Alzheimer’s drug cited as Medicare premium
jumps by $21.60
Posted By: Ribicon, 11/12/2021 6:44:31 PM
Washington—Medicare’s “Part B” outpatient premium will jump by $21.60 next year, one of the largest increases ever. Officials said Friday a new Alzheimer’s drug is responsible for about half of that. The increase guarantees that health care costs will gobble up a big chunk of the recently announced Social Security cost-of-living allowance, a boost that had worked out to $92 a month for the average retired worker. Medicare officials told reporters on Friday that about half the increase is attributable to contingency planning if the program has to cover Aduhelm, a new $56,000-a-year medication for Alzheimer’s disease.(Snip)The new Part B premium will be $170.10
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Here's a drug that barely works, if at all, to the point where several FDA advisory board members resigned in protest over its approval. It will sell for $56,000 a year in the USA but for far less elsewhere, as part of a Big Pharma price-gouging scam that President Trump was moving to stop, and which aligned the industry against him.