Opinion: Instead of eliminating drug rebates, use average sales price to set co-insurance levels
Changing key elements of the U.S. health care system can be effective and in the best interests of patients. It can also be ill-advised.
Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama were largely successful in implementing “radical” changes to the health care system, the former instituting a drug benefit for seniors through the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, the latter extending health insurance to the uninsured through the Affordable Care Act.
