House Bill to Lower Insulin Costs PASSES - 193 GOPers Voted AGAINST it - Just 12 Voted FOR

[PinktheFloyd88]

Do you think dictating prices is the President's job?

Helping Americans is the President's job. If Trump wanted an Executive Order to limit the costs of Insulin, then so be it.

I always appreciate Legislation though - since it is more permanent.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Who is making up the difference?

 

[dblack]

Helping Americans is the President's job.

Well shit, then he should get over here and replace the head gasket on my car. Fucking slacker.

 

[pknopp]

Trump passed the insulin cap with a simple executive order. The only reason the House became involved in this case, is because they wanted to pass a bunch of other stuff.

His EO did very little.

 

[Concerned American]

The only thing I can figure is that the dems folded something else into the Bill the gop found repugnant.

I don't care enough to investigate though.

Biden freezes Trump EO that did the same thing. Trump did it by EO because the democrats wouldn't pass Trumps bill to provide relief for insulin and epi pen users. Now they are making hay about passing a bill that they refused to pass for Trump.

Harris Reacts to Administration Halt on Insulin and EpiPen Cost Savings

WASHINGTON, DC: Congressman Andy Harris, M.D., issued the following statement after the Biden Administration halted a Trump era executive action that would lower consumer cost of insulin and EpiPens by requiring community health centers to pass on all discounts and savings from insulin and...

harris.house.gov

 

[dblack]

Free shit!!!

 

[Cecilie1200]

House passes bill to lower insulin costs, but prospects unclear in Senate

The House passes a healthcare bill that would cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin users at $35 a month, but its prospects in the Senate are unclear.

www.latimes.com

The measure would cap insulin costs at $35 a month for consumers enrolled in both private health insurance plans and Medicare. Currently, based on the patient’s condition and choice of treatments, costs can range from $334 to $1,000 a month for insulin, according to a 2020 Kaiser Family Foundation report.

This is a really good bill. If you know any Diabetics - it is a very expensive and unfair lifestyle. Those poor people pay a truckload for treatment. Anything to help their burden is great.

193 GOPers voted against it of course. Thoughts?

Pretty much the same thought I always have about you: He got his talking points and ran with them, because finding out why Republicans vote the way they do might get in the way of "knowing" what his masters want him to.

 

[PinktheFloyd88]

Pretty much the same thought I always have about you: He got his talking points and ran with them, because finding out why Republicans vote the way they do might get in the way of "knowing" what his masters want him to.

No idea what you just said

 

[JGalt]

Do you think dictating prices is the President's job?

You mean like Biden is dictating the high price of gasoline and propane, by way of his idiotic environmental policies?

Apparently it is the President's job.

 

[dblack]

You mean like Biden is dictating the high price of gasoline and propane, by way of his idiotic environmental policies?

Apparently it is the President's job.

Ahh.. so you're a Democrat! That explains it

 

[FA_Q2]

Well shit, then he should get over here and replace the head gasket on my car. Fucking slacker.

WOOOOOSH!

That clearly went right over pinko's head lol.

 

[Cecilie1200]

The only thing I can figure is that the dems folded something else into the Bill the gop found repugnant.

I don't care enough to investigate though.

Actually, as far as I can tell, they're opposed to government price-fixing, and don't feel the bill is clear about where that extra cost is going to go. The Democrats say it's "likely" that it will be shifted to insurers and employers, so the bill probably really DOESN'T say anything about it. If that's the case, then ultimately the cost ends up shifting to the customers.

 

[georgephillip]

House passes bill to lower insulin costs, but prospects unclear in Senate

The House passes a healthcare bill that would cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin users at $35 a month, but its prospects in the Senate are unclear.

www.latimes.com

The measure would cap insulin costs at $35 a month for consumers enrolled in both private health insurance plans and Medicare. Currently, based on the patient’s condition and choice of treatments, costs can range from $334 to $1,000 a month for insulin, according to a 2020 Kaiser Family Foundation report.

This is a really good bill. If you know any Diabetics - it is a very expensive and unfair lifestyle. Those poor people pay a truckload for treatment. Anything to help their burden is great.

193 GOPers voted against it of course. Thoughts?

Conservatives tend to define a "free" market as one that's free from any form of democratic regulation. In fact, a free market is one devoid of monopolists and rent seekers, especially those who base health care on ability to pay.

Republicans' Free Market Health Care Fantasy

"The myth, especially among GOP conservatives, is that there is a high degree of free market competition where the 'law of one price' prevails in markets for hospitals, clinics, insurance industry and pharmaceutical drugs.

"Most GOP politicians in Congress have consistently propagated the free market myth. It was one of the centerpieces of the legislative bill proposed and withdrawn by Rep. Paul Ryan in the House of Representatives."

 

[Cecilie1200]

Joe Biden is not in the House of Representatives, he's the President.

Yes, because the Democrats in the House do not in any way work with or even communicate with the Democrat in the White House.

 

[Cecilie1200]

No idea what you just said

I just said you're a moron who believes whatever the media tells you to believe. And having to ask proves me right, because everyone else knew exactly what I said.

 

[PinktheFloyd88]

I just said you're a moron who believes whatever the media tells you to believe. And having to ask proves me right, because everyone else knew exactly what I said.

I mean...okay. That was uncalled for. Calm down dude

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Are they too fucking lazy to make it themselves and distribute it FREE OF CHARGE?

What's stopping them? Oh right......reality.

"When inventor Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1. They wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it."

The absurdly high cost of insulin, explained.

 

[dblack]

Conservatives tend to define a "free" market as one that's free from any form of democratic regulation.

Yep.

In fact, a free market is one devoid of monopolists and rent seekers, especially those who base health care on ability to pay.

"Democratic regulation" is what facilitates rent seeking and monopolists. Every. Fucking. Time.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

My thought is why did Joe Biden freeze Trump's previous $35 cap on insulin, and then put it back in a bill that had a whole bunch of other shit that no sane Republican would ever support?

Trump’s insulin order frozen, not scrapped, by Biden

Have you even seen all the other stuff that's in the bill along with the $35 insulin cap?

They actually think we're so stupid that we won't notice.

 

[georgephillip]

"Democratic regulation" is what facilitates rent seeking and monopolists. Every. Fucking. Time.

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