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Health care reform impact on Xolair users

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Lets have a discussion on what Xolair users can expect to happen under the new

health care reform.

I sense how the deer in the headlights feels as I try to comprehend the changes

that may be ahead.

For instance, people who currently can't get insurance and are forfeiting their

life savings for Xolair should be able to get insurance soon, but it will be in

the form of a high risk pool in the early years, so who knows what this will

cost??

And has anyone heard what kind of assistance low income folks will be able to

get for their insurance premiums, especially those that wind up in the high risk

pool?

Will Xolair treatment be handled as a medical treatment, or as a drug, under

regular insurance plans?

For Medicare recipients, will Xolair be covered under Part D, or will it be

covered under Part B as a medical treatment?

And if handled as a drug how will this affect people on Medicare. I understand

the pharmaceutical companies are going to pay 1/2 of the cost for drugs for

Medicare recipients in the donut hole and the government will kick in something

like a $250 tax credit but how does this really play out in terms of

out-of-pocket costs for Medicare recipients. Will the pharmaceutical company

assistance effectively just widen the donut hole, or will it in fact reduce the

Medicare recipients out-of-pocket payments by 50%? And I understand this will

be changing over the years as the donut hole is slowly eliminated.

I realize there's too many questions here for anyone to answer at once but

hopefully a general forum discussion can follow as information is dribbled out

on how Xolair users will be affected.

Hopefully we won't have to hire an accounting firm to figure out what we're

going to have to pay for Xolair shots.

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