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Like we’re not paying enough to live in the Vampire state, the Democrats have come up with another way to pick our pockets. Gov. Hochul wants to hit us with a $10.18 state tax every time we fill a prescription. This “Dispensing Fee" will take billions out of our pockets and affect senior citizens and those who can least afford it.
Of course, the Democrats have to weasel around what they’re actually trying to do, which is raise the fee for pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, the companies that process prescription drug claims on behalf of most health insurance plans. The fee will then be passed on to the customers.
The Albany vampires already siphon off up to $3 for each prescription handled by the PBMs, and now want to crank the tax up to $10.18. When multiplied by the millions of prescriptions that New Yorkers fill each year, the additional expense for the health system as a whole would likely reach into the billions, and ultimately add to what are already some of the highest insurance premiums in the United States.
I’m dead set against this latest scheme to make New York even more expensive and will fight it just like I do practically everything else the Progressive Democrats throw at us.