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Trump claims credit for Biden’s insulin price cap
(www.cnbc.com)
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the insulin price cap was instituted at the end of trumps term via executive order. I remember because a family member was overjoyed by it.
when biden took office, the incoming regime stopped all the previous regime's executive orders for three months. it happened a couple of days before the insulin price cap was supposed to take effect.
it's not exactly weird to try to take credit for something you did and someone else rebranded as their own thing.
the article linked in the OP says as much, way down at the bottom after talking up how good the insulin price cap is and how polling on healthcare supports biden.
i don't usually end up in a thread saying "hey wait a second, trump actually did do that!" but dang.
Ok so I looked it up cause I'll give credit where credit is due.
Trump did start the lower cost of insulin train, but when he started it was only for "1,750 standalone Medicare Part D prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage plans." ^(1)
So yeah I guess he started it, but Biden actually did it with his Inflation Reduction Act, which Democratic lawmakers pushed through Congress in 2022. ^(2) (3)
(1) https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/president-trump-announces-lower-out-pocket-insulin-costs-medicares-seniors
(2) https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/01/01/politics/insulin-price-cap
(3) https://www.medicarerights.org/medicare-watch/2023/06/29/the-inflation-reduction-acts-part-b-insulin-price-takes-effect-july-1
Im no fan of the trump regime, but you can’t say that having a signed executive order with a hhs rule implementation ready to go with a date and everything is “starting” it.
That’s literally finishing it but then having an uno reverse pulled before the awards ceremony.
Except the award wasnt gonna go to trump, but instead to Medicare part d recipients.
Also while expanding the cap to part b fifteen months later is good, part b covers the pumps and stuff, not the epipens and insulin themselves, which are covered by part d.
I’m open to being wrong about it, but I can’t find any documentation that executive order 13937 went back into effect after the Biden regimes 60 day freeze on all trump regime eos expired.
Like I said above, I’m open to being wrong, but this seems like a big L for dems…
E: sp, grammar.
Wow holy shit, that's kind of a 180 on the whole article... I hate the news so much for this shit.