GOP strips insulin cap from bill

The radical right wing doesn't care about you and your healthcare costs. They haven't cared for many years

*Edit* They haven't ever cared

 

Here are GoodRx prices.

Insulins - Prices and Information - GoodRx

Hopefully one day mark Cuban site will vary them.

https://costplusdrugs.com/medications/categories/diabetes/

 

How could republicans strip it from a democratic bill that they didn’t vote for?

 

Not challenging this, just wondering what this is in regards too?

 

Parliamentarian ruled that provision violated a rule to be in budget reconciliation so that piece needed to have 60 votes to be included. Only 57 votes (7 republicans) voted yes. Dems made them unusually go to a roll call vote to put them on record.

Republicans are vengeful shitheads. They can’t stop the bill but want to take out what they can good or bad.

 

Good question.

I assume this happened via an “amendment” to the bill, so all republicans voting against would just need 1 dem to take it out.

Edit: per citygator guess it was 60 vote threshold outside the reconciliation process, so the R’s didn’t need even 1 D to take this out.

Gotta pay the insulin monopoly tax to MAGA I guess, because no Republicans have diabetes (and we know at this point, they’ll just blame democrats for insulin prices and their rubes will believe them anyway).

 

Hate to hear that but I went on keto to avoid insulin injections and almost 2 years later I'm sitting in the mid 70s of fasting glucose. Adios to Type II diabetes as long as I stay away from carbs.

 

Here are the republicans who voted against capping insulin.

 

That's just what Republicans do. Always favor corporations over people who are struggling. Why so much of the white working class now supports Republicans I'll never know. They are voting against their own interests. But then Repub pols throw them some white grievance red meat and it works. I guess people would rather be resentful than better off.

 

Rubio and Scott voting against their constituents' interests, as usual.

 

But...but...transgenders in bathrooms

 

IMO those guys are company men. No more, no less. They’re not as bad as many but neither is exceptional and neither is all that concerned with their constituents’ real problems

 

GOP continues to show how pro-life they are

 

Trump had this thing called Most Favored Nation status/act ready to kick in during his second term as POTUS where all Americans pay the lowest prices for all pharmaceutical drugs, including insulin. Remember that?

Biden killed it in his first week in office. Thank him for insulin prices. Please don't tell me you voted for him.

I think the price of insulin would have been under $20 month... or equal to whatever third world countries pay for it.


Including Part D increases the impact sixfold

Not only did Trump formally issue his executive order requiring “most favored nation” status to drugs paid for by Medicare Part B, but he expanded the order to include drugs in Medicare Part D “where insufficient competition exists and seniors are faced with [above average] prices.”


(Part B is the portion of Medicare that pays for physician services, including physician-administered drugs like those requiring an intravenous infusion. Part D is the portion of Medicare that pays for drugs people buy at retail pharmacies like CVS or Walgreens. Medicare is the massive government program that subsidizes health care for Americans over 65.)

The expansion of the executive order to include Part D is important. For context, in 2017, American health insurers—including Medicare—spent around $500 billion on prescription drugs, prior to rebates. Of that $500 billion, Medicare Part B comprised $30 billion. Part D comprised $155 billion. Put another way: the President, by including Part D in his new order, increased its scope sixfold.

How Trump’s New ‘Most Favored Nation’ Executive Order Will Reduce Prescription Drug Costs In Medicare Parts B & D

 

My ex is a type 1 and pays through the nose for insulin. Shameful monopolistic practice praying on the desperate. This is who the GOP is. This is a win for them

 

Just ignore the Republican vote today, blame Biden and vote GOP. It is called fantasywold

 

I think the Medicare part passed; the private insurance part was rejected.

 

Wow, you called that one..