President Biden is taking on the pharmaceutical industry by allowing Medicare to negotiate the price of some prescription drugs. The whole thing started last year with the passing of the Affordable Care Act.
Medicare is the federal health insurance program for older and disabled people and the new provisions allowing it to negotiate drug prices are expected to save the government nearly $100 billion while lowering insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs for many older Americans.
Naturally, Big Pharma does not like this. They enjoy bleeding disabled people and senior citizens dry. They love bilking taxpayers. Big Pharma may even be greedier than the oil industry. So, the drug companies are suing the Biden administration to make it stop.
Those suing are Johnson & Johson, Merck, Bristol Meyers Squibb, and Astellas Pharma, along with the industry’s main trade group and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The suits argue that pricing provisions are unconstitutional but I’m not sure that argument will fly when the customer is the federal government.
Republicans side with Big Pharma on this but they’re trying to be quiet about it because just like with abortion, making it harder for minorities to vote, allowing deranged racist lunatics to purchase assault rifles, and supporting white nationalist insurrections to install a fascist Oompa-Loompa dictator, they’re on the wrong side of the American public.
But while President Biden is busy fighting for Americans to get lower prescription drug prices and doing other presidential duties, twice-impeached and four-time indicted Donald Trump was busy getting arrested again, having his mugshot taken, grifting his supporters to pay his legal bills, and whining about being persecuted for merely trying to steal an election he lost.
Like lawyer Fletcher Reed said to one of his clients in the movie Liar Liar when a curse prevented him from fibbing for 24 hours (I swear, I don’t even like that movie very much), “Stop breaking the law, asshole!”.
And how stupid are Trumpers? They’re bragging that Donald Trump raised $7 million from them for his legal fees by selling T-shirts featuring his mugshot, overlooking the surreal fact THAT HE HAS A MUGSHOT!!!
Music note: I listened to Jane’s Addiction.
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Hi, Clay,
Trumpers are also overlooking the even more surreal fact that the motto on the merch is “Never Surrender” and Trump was voluntarily in the act of surrendering when the mugshot was taken!
Nan
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Rich White Drug Dealing families suing Dark Brandon is going to loose, except the lobbyists who don’t care if you live or die, it’s only about the $$ in their pocket. Good on the Democrats for taking on big pharma and more will come to help those in need. Cheers
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I don’t like Liar, Liar much myself, but it sure would be handy if we could turn all politicians into Fletcher Reeds.
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A mugshot under democrat sedition is a plus in the Rule of Honor crowd.
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Hey, Clay, I think that your TROLL is back. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Janumet cost $500 a month. Eliquis cost $500 a month. If you are on those two medications alone and don’t have insurance that is $12000 a year out of pocket. OUCH!!!!
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Until insulin was capped at $35, I paid almost $1,000 per month for the two types of insulin I take … I am so thankful for that cap and hope the pharma companies lose this next battle!
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Me too! Robber Barons.
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As a Canadian senior in Alberta, I have a price limit of $25 per refill on each listed medicstion. Most of my meds are listed, so my savings can be enormous. Because we can only get 3 months worth of each medication at a time, that means a maximum! $100/year per med. If not for this, there is no way I could afford my med
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America is about robbing the poor to pay the rich.
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My provincial government is determined to give up the American Health System. We have prevented that so far. Over 40 years now they’ve been trying. Yet they keep on trying. All they can see are $$$ signs.
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Yup. All they can see are $$$ signs.
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Oh … and good cartoon Clay.
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You might note that the Veteran’s Administration has negotiated the prices of drugs for many years. But the troglodytes don’t want be seen attacking the troops as it were.
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