And with such a bad outlook, who can guarantee the rest of us are "safe" until the second half of February? I’m so sorry for the people affected last week, and I expect many of us will soon join that army of the unemployed. This has been really tough on all of us, and there’s no end in sight. These days, coming into work just feels like sitting in a waiting room for your own layoff.
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@ag forcing payers to divest PBMs is already in the works. This Medicare freeze is icing on the cake. Healthcare should not be for-profit and for-profit payers should disappear but few expected this to come from the GOP.
"I fought the billionaire insurance industry to cut spending, lower the deficit, and give tax dollars back to working Americans to pay for health care while Obamacare spent billions in corporate welfare straight to the pockets of CEOs like Steve Hemsley and the other guys wanted to keep that waste flowing" is a pretty solid midterm talking point that's hard to refute.
@a1 probably a strong-arm negotiating tactic to get the PBM win the administration is after. They have until I want to say April to finalize the reimbursement rate.
@a1 with this crazy-a-s administration, I wouldn't say that's set in stone
@a1 where did you see that? Is this new?
Gonna get a lot worse. Feds effectively froze MA reimbursement for 2026. Now they have to cut a ton more jobs than planned to meet the 4-6% reimbursement increase they expected