Obamacare to hurt cancer patients...of course it will...

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Obamacare, the gift that keeps on giving...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...Lead-To-More-Difficulties-For-Cancer-Patients

In an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a physician and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), explains that ObamaCare will expand a program called 340B, which draws funds from drug makers and health insurers in order to subsidize certain hospitals. The expansion has been necessary to offset some of the cuts that ObamaCare imposes on hospitals. A glaring side effect of 340B, however, is that the cost of cancer treatment will increase while the quality of cancer care will decline.
Gottlieb states that, when 340B began in 1992, its purpose was to support hospitals that provided care to the uninsured and those who are indigent. Since then, however, the program has widely expanded so that it became a “government cash cow that hospitals of every description have learned to exploit.”
Under the program, qualifying hospitals are permitted to purchase drugs from drug companies at forced discounts of 25 to 50 percent. The hospitals can then bill government and private insurers for the full cost of the drugs and pocket the difference. This procedure greatly incentivizes hospitals to search for patients and prescribe significant amounts of drugs. With more expensive drugs, hospitals pocket more cash; hence, the more costly cancer drugs are particularly appealing.

Apparently, special needs children are also going to feel obama's love...

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/01/obamacare-hurts-parents-of-special-needs-children/

More than 30 million Americans place money into a pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA) through their employers to help save emergency funds to pay for their families’ medical

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. Obamacare institutes a brand new $2,500 cap for FSAs, which will make more money taxable and could raise $13 billion in taxes for the federal government over the next decade.
“Before Obamacare passed, there was no limit to how much money you could put into your FSA at work,” Ryan Ellis, tax policy director at Americans for Tax Reform, told The Daily Caller. Ellis was inspired to perform research on the issue after hearing the complaints of a friend with a special-needs child.

Ellis said this technical change will add massive costs for parents.
“A big chunk of the tuition parents paid for special-needs schools used to be on a pre-tax basis. Now, they’re paying on an after-tax basis,” Ellis said.

 

[arnisador]

“Before Obamacare passed, there was no limit to how much money you could put into your FSA at work,”

Statutorily, no, but virtually all employers did set caps.