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Originally posted by Jefffive:
It's not like he has any of his own to brag about.

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Originally posted by theback40:
Do you guys ever fact check anything?

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Originally posted by theback40:
Trump put in voluntary price cap at $35 for part D. He put it in an EO to begin Jan 2021.
Biden froze the EO when he came in to review it. It was then put in place.
This is all old news. Do you guys ever fact check anything?

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Social media posts claim US President Joe Biden took credit for lowering insulin prices after reversing a similar action from predecessor Donald Trump. This is misleading; Trump approved a voluntary program capping insulin costs at $35 for many seniors and issued an executive order that was never implemented, while Biden signed a law mandating low prices and encouraged pharmaceutical firms to limit costs for all diabetics.

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Originally posted by theback40:
Jeffi, it was voluntary implemented, I already said that. He had an EO in place for Jan 2021.
Biden froze it, before he signed it.
Yes Biden approved it, Trump already had it in place. To hard for you to understand?
Biden did not pull a novel idea out of his ass. The $35 number was even the same Trump had set up.

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Originally posted by LHeym500:
Jefffive’s reporting is that Trump never implemented the 35 dollar executive order.

I also watched committee hearings on Cspsn over insulin prices. GOP members repeatedly blocked measures to stop allowing patent extensions through legislation that caused the price of insulin and other drugs to be artificially high.

Certainly not hands off, fair market competition from the Right.

Now, did Trump not implement the order bc he did not have time bf leaving office? That becomes the question. If the answer to that question is yes, them he should have made it a focus much earlier in the term.

I know he was too busy.

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Jeffi, it was voluntary implemented

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Originally posted by wymple:

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Jeffi, it was voluntary implemented

Voluntary? How did that work out?

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But in his State of the Union, President Biden made clear that this life-saving benefit should apply to everyone, not just Medicare beneficiaries .
This week, Eli Lilly, the largest manufacturer of insulin in the United States is lowering their prices and meeting that call .

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Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a new report showing the major savings coming to people with Medicare thanks to the $35 cap on a month’s supply of insulin. The report shows that if the Inflation Reduction Act’s provision capping the cost of insulin at $35 for a month’s supply for Medicare beneficiaries had been in place in 2020, 1.5 million seniors across the country would have saved an average of $500 on insulin for the year.

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:

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Originally posted by wymple:

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Jeffi, it was voluntary implemented

Voluntary? How did that work out?

Hey, I could TRY and TEACH you -- but, tell you what,
Why don't you read how the White House explains it for you -

https://www.whitehouse.gov/bri...ns-in-all-50-states/

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But in his State of the Union, President Biden made clear that this life-saving benefit should apply to everyone, not just Medicare beneficiaries .
This week, Eli Lilly, the largest manufacturer of insulin in the United States is lowering their prices and meeting that call .

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news...n%20for%20the%20year.

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Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a new report showing the major savings coming to people with Medicare thanks to the $35 cap on a month’s supply of insulin. The report shows that if the Inflation Reduction Act’s provision capping the cost of insulin at $35 for a month’s supply for Medicare beneficiaries had been in place in 2020, 1.5 million seniors across the country would have saved an average of $500 on insulin for the year.

and yep, i agree that trump
s EO, though signed, never went into effect

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“Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “It was all done long before he so sadly entered office. All he does is try to take credit for things done by others, in this case, ME!”

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There are no records of how many people took advantage of the part D plans to get the $35 a month insulin. So the millions is BS.
But it was offered in the part D system, for whoever signed up for it.