* Currently the US welfare agencies will provide ~any FDA-approved drug for someone with the illness for which the drug was approved
* In this case, they probably won't - in the worst case scenario it would double their spending on prescription drugs and seems unlikely to help anyone
* So this is going to sever the link between FDA approval and medicaid spending.
* Now you have an awkward situation where agencies that not really equipped to make judgements on dug effectiveness, and which are not insulated from politics, have to make those decisions.
This could all work out for the best in the long term but may also be very awkward in the short term.
* Currently the US welfare agencies will provide ~any FDA-approved drug for someone with the illness for which the drug was approved
* In this case, they probably won't - in the worst case scenario it would double their spending on prescription drugs and seems unlikely to help anyone
* So this is going to sever the link between FDA approval and medicaid spending.
* Now you have an awkward situation where agencies that not really equipped to make judgements on dug effectiveness, and which are not insulated from politics, have to make those decisions.
This could all work out for the best in the long term but may also be very awkward in the short term.