Legislation: Tax Medicine to Treat Drug Addicts
26th May 2016
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Just when I thought our elected representatives had reached the apex of moronic ideas. Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) want to tax opioid medicines–needed by very ill and disabled patients to treat severe pain–to pay for addiction treatment programs.
(I-ME) means ‘Idiot-Maine’.
Isn’t this just typical of our political leadership these days? Make medicine more expensive for those who need it–or for insurance companies that fund the treatment–to pay for the care of people who abuse those medicines.
Yeah, that’s a pretty fair statement. Witness the notorious ‘medical devices tax’.