Biden puts focus on drug prices in fight against inflation

The Associated Press ^ | February 10, 2022 | By CHRIS MEGERIAN and JOSH BOAK

[skeeter]

Makes you wonder why one of the first things Biden did after the being inaugurated was reverse Trump’s EOs which lowered drug prices.

[rovenstinez]

Does this include lowering the prices of heroin and meth?

[BusterDog]

They love it when Americans take the drugs.

[taxcontrol]

[sigh]

Not every person / company / industry uses or needs drugs. However, oil / gas is necessary for every household, car, truck, business in America.

If you want to bring down inflation, return the cost of oil/gas to Trump presidency levels.

[mort56]

This administration is a clown circus. They don’t even have a grasp of basic economics.

[Bob434]

Yeah well- while biden ‘focuses’ - Trump DELIVERED!

[mmichaels1970]

Unable to tame inflation that has worsened sharply under his watch

Implies that he's actually tried...which he hasn't.

“everyone has less money in their pockets today because of high drug costs.”

Everyone? Like perfectly healthy 20-30 somethings? Nope. Not everybody is on a slew of high-priced medications. EVERYBODY eats. Nearly EVERYBODY buys gasoline.

These people are ridiculous.

[sima_yi]

When the government prints too much money, inflation results. It's as simple as that.

Look at Venezuela, Zimbabwe, or post WWI Germany.

[PGR88]

Give $20 billion or so to crony-capitalists Pfizer, Moderna for government-sponsored vaccines, and he’s surprised they want more $$ from Uncle Sugar Daddy?

[Nextrush]

Gotta keep helping Big Pharma when the vax profits run out.

[mmichaels1970]

His proposals include capping out-of-pocket medication costs for Medicare recipients at $2,000 per year and insulin at $35 per month. In addition, Medicare would be allowed to negotiate prices for a limited number of prescription drugs and drugmakers would be required to pay rebates if they raise costs faster than inflation.

Yeah...that'll help "everybody".....please.

[I want the USA back]

The sad part is that so many Americans will actually think that the decrepit old fool actually plans to lower prices.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Ees price kontrols, da?

Or maybe he could just convert a bunch of brand drugs to generics, the way Trump did.

[fhayek]

As always, blame the drug producers, the oil companies, the meat producers..

It is never half-baked government policies that are the culprit.

[Da Coyote]

TBOA.
Total Bull Obama Article

[metmom]

Trump did that and then biden undid it.

Now he’s doing it to try to look like the hero.

Liar-in-chief.

[metmom]

Efforts to lower prescription drug costs have long been popular with voters, but bipartisan consensus has proved elusive.

And you can thank the democrats for that.

[NWFree]

“ Makes you wonder why one of the first things Biden did after the being inaugurated was reverse Trump’s EOs which lowered drug prices.”

That can’t be repeated enough. This is yet another problem created by President Retard 🤪

Glad I’m not a diabetic - he screwed them over on insulin too after Trump dropped the prices.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yessiree! Putting Band-Aids on the symptoms is always an effective approach to fixing the disease.