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Letter: Health care affordability evaporates

The Columbian
Published: April 7, 2013, 5:00pm

Under the Health Care Reform Act, aka Obamacare, my co-pay for the same prescriptions is now close to the amount I paid when I was in the doughnut hole before the Obamacare. I now reach the doughnut hole sooner and the 50-percent relief benefit has resulted in me paying triple when I paid 100 percent.

For the past two years I have been eligible for disaster relief, meaning I paid over the maximum amount to go “past” the doughnut hole and resulting in 100-percent relief the last two months of the year.

I can only imagine how much more the government share has gone up.

Accessible health care did not translate into affordable, instead it is increasingly unaffordable.

The government is picking up the difference, and taxpayers will be paying for two plans — those who can’t afford it and those of us who can while we still can afford it, which won’t last forever.

The issue with subsidies is that, sooner or later, those receiving will run out of other people’s money.

It’s time to talk about the cost of prescriptions and what companies are charging the government for reimbursements and also us, just because they can.

Anna Burden

VANCOUVER

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