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Important Health Care Announcement

The VA also imports some medicines and medical supplies from Canada. Several times my prescriptions were from Canadian companies.

From a VA newsletter for January, 2010:

VA Statement about 2010 Benefits and Programs

WASHINGTON ? The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) wants to inform Veterans and other beneficiaries of the following changes that will take effect in 2010:

· VA will Freeze Increase in Prescription Copayments: Any increase in Veterans out-of-pocket payments for pharmaceuticals will be delayed until June 30, 2010. This means the department will delay a scheduled $1 increase ? to $9 ? in the copayments facing Veterans for each 30-day supply of medicine for the treatment of conditions not related to military service. During this period, VA will also keep $960 as the maximum, annual out-of-pocket payments for pharmaceuticals for non-service-related conditions. The $960 cap will not apply to Veterans in priority groups seven and eight. The yearly maximum out-of-pocket payment was scheduled to increase to $1,080. There are no copayments associated with the treatment of conditions related to military service. 
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Michael A. Terrell
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flipper wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

in response to;

again,you're "debating" with a KILLFILE candidate.(AKA "troll")

Why,I don't know.

Can't you guys recognize when a debate is going nowhere? without going on and on and on....

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Jim Yanik

Is that an FYI or is there more to it?

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flipper

It's one of their attempts to control costs, and provide care for more Veterans on their fixed budget. If they can't get an item in the US for the budgeted price, they look elsewhere. Generic medicines, and things like bandages or other consumables are allowed to be bought outside the US.

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Michael A. Terrell

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Since there are effective medical treatments for obesity, your position is the illogical one.

You may claim to have debunked them, but you haven't said where they were debunked.

Since the claim about the origin of the higher US costs doesn't seem to have anything to do with cohort comparisons

"The authors cited several factors contributing to higher U.S. health costs=97a fragmented financing system that generates higher administrative costs; and health care providers with greater market power than health care purchasers, which allows prices to rise above levels of other countries where the government intervenes to control prices."

you seem to be making one of your usual specious claim.

I don't think that your habit of decrying international cost comparisons as pointless actually constitutes discussion - it's more a way of declaiming your ideological purity in the face of embarrassing facts.

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Bill Sloman

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