Trump claims credit for Biden’s insulin price cap

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/08/trump-claims-credit-for-bidens-insulin-price-cap.html

27 comments

  1. Not only is he lying out of his ass, Project 2025 plans to increase the price cap of insulin even more.

    Edit: Project 2025 wants to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act which is what capped the insulin prices at $35

    Edit 2: Biden did not ever raise the insulin prices before bring it back down. [Source](https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-845638742817)

  3. And a lot of stupid people will believe him unfortunately.

  4. Every fucking day Trump does something that in a normal universe would by itself disqualify him as a candidate. But it never seems to matter and I can’t imagine this will either.

  5. Here is a bit of a story.

    There are three punk bands, Agent Orange, The Vandals and The Offspring.

    Agent Orange had a song back in the early 80s that was “underground popular.” There was a guitar riff that sounded “Egyptian” which The Offspring also had in their song Come Out and Play.

    Well Agent Orange sued The Offspring over this guitar riff and this is where The Vandals come into the story. They wrote a song about it all.

    About Agent Orange, their lead singer Mike Palm and the song Bloodstains.

    Called,

    >Aging Orange.

    Which ironically fits Trump doubly in this article.

    >I’m Palm Palm head and I wrote one good song
    But that was almost 20 years ago
    I tried and I tried to follow it up
    But you know how those sophomore jinxes go

    >So I became quite bitter as sales dropped like flies
    No one likes these dumb songs of car racing and spies
    Maybe it’s my ape drape or hippies in my band
    But now we only tour in Arizona or Japan

    >So after much thought and a panel of experts
    I came up with a brilliant little plan
    I’ll take out my frustrations
    On one of these ungrateful new punk rock bands

    >’Cause I invented socks and I invented gravy
    I made up the cotton gin but no one ever paid me
    Why beat a dead horse with a career that is cursed?
    I’ll just sue for royalties on things I thought of first

    >Back in Ancient Egypt many Pharaohs went to jail For misappropriation of my Phrygian scale

    >I said listen to Tutankhamen you’re driving me insane
    It’s obvious those bellies are all dancing to Bloodstains
    I figured out you owe me and please try not to laugh
    But every time I hear it I get one more golden calf

    >So I’ve bitten off a sizable chunk
    Of the hands of the people with the food
    Now I’m confined to the pages of Flipside
    A graveyard of punk rock’s 35 year old dudes

    >’Cause I invented socks and I invented gravy
    I made up the cotton gin but no one ever paid me
    Why beat a dead horse with a career that is cursed?
    I’ll just sue for royalties on things I thought of first, oh

  8. It’s what a five time draft dodging coward would do 😁

  9. In a sense, that’s true, because by losing the election he allowed someone competent to get it done

  10. Howard Dean screamed one time and fucked his chances. Convicted Felon Donald Trump can’t go an hour without lying and yet here we are expecting to see his foul ass on the ballot in November.

    I hate this timeline.

  11. Didn’t the Republican congress reject controlling insulin pricing. California was going to set up a factory to produce it; in response to their BS.

  12. What if Trump just has dementia and actually believes everything he says because people around him are telling him it’s true.

  13. Convicted felon Trump, who awaits sentencing for being a massive fraud?

    Weird.

  14. Trump signed an executive order to cap Insulin to $35 copay on some senior plans – but manufacturers were still rippling people off still ripping the gov off with the inflated price. Biden got the manufacturer to drop the price to $35. Nobody is getting ripped off.

  15. Seriously, next he’ll claim he discovered gravity. It’s mind-boggling

  17. Can’t wait for the Republican leadership to respond to that one.

  18. I’m sure he does.

    We finally realized that those that are not only morally decrepit and bankrupt, but are truly malignant in their violent intent are very difficult to stop.

    Especially if they weaponize a cult of other people like them, that think they can get away with the same behavior.

    And for a while, they can.

    Then democracy and good people stand back up, things change and pivot back to decency.

    We’ve seen a time and again over history.

    Villains and villainy always lose, it’s just a matter of the losses of good people.

    Which nobody wants.

    Except the villains.

    But again, they eventually lose.

  21. God damn not Donald Trump again. Pease no more of this shit for 4 more years

    Let’s go joe!

  22. And MAGA’s will say that’s the gospel truth.

  23. The idiot strikes again. Thinks he can fool everyone, yea the dumbfuck right wing asswipes maybe.

  24. Just like all those republicans that voted against policies, while also taking credit for the help and funds they provide their constituents. Just a fucking idiot train with no brakes. I’m just waiting on the crash. VOTE PEOPLE!!!

  25. Facts are important and Trump is once again telling a total lie.

    1. The Biden administration repealed a very NARROW, Trump-era regulation that sought to lower the cost of insulin at ONLY federally funded health centers. The regulation was NEVER implemented and experts say its impact was expected to be limited.

    2. The Trump rule pertained specifically to patients who use federally funded health centers, which provide services to underserved communities. Medicare patients would NOT see any reductions unless they gave up their doctors and used the federal health centers. Finalized in late 2020, the rule aimed to ensure that such health centers were passing along discounted rates of insulin and injectable epinephrine, used for allergic reactions. It was NOT fully implemented before it was rescinded and experts said any impact was expected to be minimal.

    3. Federally funded health center centers “are already required to provide products and services at low or no cost to most of their patients.” Trumps $54 price, was MORE expensive than what patients using these health centers often pay.

    4. Trumps rules was heavily flawed and required significant increases in administrative costs to implement making the program significantly more expensive for American taxpayers who shoulder the burden of these administrative costs.

    5. During the Trump Presidency in 2020, seniors with Medicare drug plans paid an average of $54 per month for their insulin, with some paying up to $116 per month. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden and Congressional Democrats capped the monthly cost of insulin for all seniors at $35 a month without any increase in administrative costs.

  26. Many people don’t know this, but I showed George Washington the proper course to cross the Delaware.
    George said Sir, you provide the best navigation.
    I told him, George, my uncle was the person who invented navigation at MIT, longest serving professor ever there.

  27. It doesn’t help that a Biden victory lap usually lasts about 1 day and it’s echoed by almost no other dems, so this is probably the first time many people are hearing about it.

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