About 6 million Americans have received the medication Paxlovid for free to prevent COVID-19 hospitalization and even death, but government subsidies will disappear next year.
Dec. 7, 2022 -- About 6 million Americans have received the medication Paxlovid for free to prevent COVID-19 hospitalization and even death.
“Millions of people who are at the highest risk of severe illness and are least able to afford the drug — the uninsured and seniors — may have to pay the full price,” Kaiser Health News says. “And that means fewer people will get the potentially lifesaving treatments, experts said.” Jill Rosenthal, director of public health policy at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank said “the numbers will go way down” if it costs several hundred dollars.
Medicare Part D, which covers almost 50 million seniors, is prevented by federal law from paying for the treatment pills. An FDA emergency use authorization makes the treatments available now, but Medicare Part D needs full approval to go beyond that, and the process can take years.
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