From MercuryNews.com:
Study: Drug caps mean sicker patients, no savings
If your health insurance limits how much it pays for prescription drugs each year, your health could be the worse for it.
So say researchers at Kaiser Permanente, who concluded in a sweeping new study that spending caps hurt people with chronic health conditions the most — prompting many sick, elderly patients to skip their medications once their insurance coverage stops.
For diabetics, heart patients and those with high cholesterol, such decisions can be deadly. The researchers found that seniors who faced spending caps were more likely to visit the emergency room, be hospitalized and die than seniors who didn’t.
The focus is on the elderly, but the same is true of anyone taking medication for a chronic condition, physical or otherwise.
