People with serious pre-existing diseases, precisely those
the president aimed to help with ObamaCare, could find themselves paying for
expensive drug treatments with no help from the health care exchanges.
Those with expensive diseases such as lupus or multiple
sclerosis face something called a "closed drug formulary."
Dr. Scott Gottlieb of the American Enterprise Institute
explains,"if the medicine that you need isn't on that list, it's not
covered at all. You have to pay completely out of pocket to get that medicine,
and the money you spend doesn't count against your deductible, and it doesn't
count against your out of pocket limits, so you're basically on your own."
The plan had claimed it would rescue those with serious
pre-existing conditions.
"So it could be that a MS patient could be expected to
pay $62,000 just for one medication," says Dr. Daniel Kantor, who treats
MS patients and others with neurological conditions near Jacksonville , Florida
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