Trump claims credit for Biden’s insulin price cap
Trump claims credit for Biden’s insulin price cap
Donald Trump and President Biden are scheduled for their first presidential debate on June 27.
We cannot have a fair debate without dedicated fact-checkers that pause the candidates and refute the lies from Trump (sure, and Biden if he does). Anything less is just letting him continue his strategy of spewing falsehoods faster than they can be corrected.
Trump will just dismiss the fact-checkers as biased and continue.
Trump DID in fact have an executive order in place that capped the price of insulin and EpiPens when he left, which Biden immediately froze on his first day in office.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-insulin-epipen/
https://factcheck.afp.com/trumps-insulin-order-frozen-not-scrapped-biden
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/trumps-executive-orders-on-prescription-drugs/
It's very debatable if trump's EO would have capped the price of Insulin or Epipens in a meaningful way - and its factually wrong that it was the same cap and legislation that Biden put into place.
Trump's EO meant that Federally Qualified Health Centers would have to offer Insulin and Epinephrine to "Low Income Individuals" without health insurance "at the discounted price paid by the FQHC grantee or sub-grantee under the 340B Prescription Drug Program” plus a “minimal” fee.
From your own link, FQHCs already had a requirement to not charge anything to people in poverty, so "If ‘low income’ is defined as under 100% of poverty, this may not really change anything. Even if the income level is set somewhat higher, most patients likely would still have been protected by the sliding fee scale without this change".
This link, like your others, is from 2020. I don't know how "low income" would actually have been defined since it wasn't scheduled to come into place until Jan 22nd - during Biden's administration.
It's true that Biden froze this - as others have mentioned in this thread, he put a 60 day freeze on all pending legislature when taking office, which is a fairly standard practice.
Biden's own Insulin cap was part of the Inflation Reduction Act, and capped the price of Insulin to $35 monthly for products covered by Medicare D.
So yeah I concede that it's an oversimplification to say that Trump did nothing and Biden did everything, but... the Insulin cap is Biden's legislation. Trump did not cap Insulin or Epipen prices during his 4 years in office.
Trump has absolutely no shame, he's a narcissist liar piece of shit. It's more like for a small bribe he would try to prevent it.
It's just the power of muddying the waters. Very effective when you largely control the narrative in your massive echo-chamber created by a right-wing media ecosystem. Any boomer/Gen x fox news viewer will now just think Donald did it and look no further.
It really is incredible how certain people literally have no shame. I wonder if it's a form of psychopathy.
It is, Trump is literally a malignant narcissist, sociopath and psychopath and a pathological liar. Meaning he lies to put himself in a better light, and to hurt people on purpose.
Trump is a natural in gaslighting, it's not even an effort to him. It's the way he thinks all the time.
It's absolutely insane that about half of USA support him. It's a country where a large part of the population is collectively mentally ill.
Gotta love how far too many are going to believe him anyway and there's really nothing you can do about it. Wild times.
Journalism seems dead
Constantly calling everything fake news or woke to erode their supporters trust in the media is fascism 101.
I remember when Trump tried to claim credit for pharmacies putting price caps on a variety of medicines by a bill he passed, when that bill changed nothing because it was already a policy the pharmacies had enacted years prior.
That's what Biden did last year when he claimed they negotiated lower meds for Medicare. When in reality the patents were expiring in those drugs and lower cost generics were about to hit the market anyway
Tell him that insulin price caps are WOKE DEI CRT GROOMER stuff.
I don't know, this seems like small potatoes compared to the fascism.
You mean the cap trump had in place before Biden struck it down?
[citation needed]
OPs article also addressed this