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Orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Tom Price is now in charge of Health & Human Services and here is an analysis of the laws he may try to dismantle, programs which could lose government support, and the ensuing federal budget implications. This article is based on actual facts, not �alternate facts� which are popular with the Trump Administration. Budget Implications The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been a revenue generator, while also providing medical insurance for 20 million low income people and has helped to reduce the federal deficit.   (ObamaCareFacts.com, 2017) According to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), repeal of the Affordable Care Act would cause the federal deficit to grow by $137,000,000,000 by 2025.   (Congressional Budget Office, 2015) That�s right, a repeal of the ACA would increase the deficit by 137 billion dollars.   Here are some of the provisions which have generated money for the go...

The Real Skinny on Why Your Drugs Are So Expensive Americans are scolded they need to pay more for their prescription drugs, because of the inherent need for drug companies to invest in science to find cures. The real reason for the price gouging is American healthcare consumers are getting ripped off by Wall Street sharks who are profiting at the expense of the rest of us. First, there are differences in the market sector of the pharmaceutical industry, basically, the bio-pharmacological industry, which has invented the highly successful cancer treatments and other health enhancing drugs and the generic drug manufacturing business. For the former, these companies must wait years, often decades before they have a successful payoff, but the latter, is involved in the lucrative and predictable generic drug manufacturing business. This is the sector which creates drugs which are still highly effective, but for whom their patents have expired. In other words, this is where you, the consum...