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Silent Type

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8. Completely agree. But drugs are around 12% of healthcare expenditures. If we cut it in half,

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #7)

Tue Apr 2, 2024, 08:16 PM

Apr 2024

it won’t change things much. And the odds of cutting it in half are small. All for it, but not a game changer.

At least for all of us on drug plans, the coverage gap decreases dramatically in 2025.

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