Ep.+743 - Here comes the new $2K limit on drug plan cost sharing!

Medicare For The Lazy Man Podcast

FYI, if you take expensive prescription meds, 2025 will bring a $2000 limit on out-of-pocket cost sharing for covered drugs.

This failed attempt to buy votes in the recent election has left behind a trail of unintended consequences and unanticipated turmoil.

Mr. Young pays another visit to the podcast to ask how this new limit is likely to work with his prescriptions for Otezla and Skyrizi.

My speculation is that the Feds will find a way to mess it up.

In the Medicare Advantage Minute: "The sickest patients are fleeing private Medicare plans, costing taxpayers billions!" MA plans do not like spending money on after-hospital care, no matter how great the need.

How is your Medicare supplement rated: Attained age, issue age or community? You shouldn't listen to so-called "unbiased" advisors!

A southern MD with a lengthy drug list waited too long to attempt the move to Medicare supplement. His Advantage plan's pharmacy benefit is just too good to leave for a stand alone Part D drug plan.

Steve invited himself to our Christmas party but we have to ask the sponsors their opinion, since they are the ones picking up the tab.

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