Tornado Alley (PROG)

[3Saints]

You keep harping on the insurers but the drug comapnies just hit the lottery here.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Washington-Watch/Reform/45196

More than six in every 1,000 prescriptions were for an HIV drug, a rate four times that of employer plans.
HIV/AIDS drugs Atripla and Truvada ranked in the top 10 for total amounts spent on drugs but did not hit the top 10 in spending among the comparison group.
Sovaldi, an $84,000 treatment approved in December to treat hepatitis C, came in second for total spending, while it ranked No. 8 in the comparison group.
The volume of pain medication was 35% higher; drugs to control seizures were 27% higher and antidepressants were 14% higher. Conversely, birth control prescriptions were 31% lower.

Most of the people on this board get all riled up about guns. Do you know how shitty the mental health coverage is on most plans...no change under ACA either. You need to jump through hoops for authorization to get 10 sessions of therapy but they will readily approve 30 years of medicine for depression. In addition...the seldom cover marital counseling...even though it may prevent domestic violence. You need to lie to get it covered.

Try finding a Psychiatrist and getting an appointment without a 3 month wait....there is a shortage.

But yet....birth control was a major fucking issue....the DEMS are as bad as the REPS.

Follow the money...they just want to pump you full of meds...not help you. There have been numerous studies that therapy is as effective as meds....and it is not a lifelong ongoing cost in most instances...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2748674/

Why are the insurers and insurance departments for that matter so reluctant to mandate change?