Trump breaks key campaign promise on Medicare
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Source: Think Progress
"If we have to bid out pharmaceuticals, we're bidding them out. We're going to save billions and billions and billions of dollars."
RYAN KORONOWSKI MAY 11, 2018, 12:09 PM
On the campaign trail, candidate Trump promised to save hundreds of billions of dollars standing up to the pharmaceutical industry, and said hed negotiate like crazy to bring down Medicare prescription drug prices.
Allowing Medicare to negotiate directly with drug companies for better prices has long been a goal for progressives, and when voters heard Trump stray from the Republican party orthodoxy, railing against Big Pharma as he asked for their support, many likely thought his promises would mean something different in Washington, D.C. if he were elected president.
Sadly, they were wrong.
Ahead of the Friday speech announcing the plan, senior administration officials told reporters that we are not calling for Medicare negotiation in the way that Democrats have called for, instead characterizing Trumps plan as outlining important changes that will dramatically improve the way negotiation takes place inside the Medicare program.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-drug-price-negotiation-broken-promise-9ecd90e23b63/
If you are in the Part D program like myself and millions of others, one of the main assholes that is doing this besides this idiot.............is Paul "ayn rand" Ryan, his fingerprints are all of this..................and the elderly and those on expense drugs are now under the threat of blackmail, yet again....................
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,341 posts)Donnie Two-Scoops new campaign slogan is Promises made. Promises kept.
I guess some exclusions apply here.
OK, not some.
Rather many.
Probably most!
Hey, its all about appealing to his cognitively-challenged base.
TeamPooka
(25,055 posts)drug price negotiation for medicare patients.
Mo' republicans, Mo' problems.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,685 posts)... so the blame is shared.
For example, the honorable Dianne Feinstein voted for this piece of crap.
The House vote was a marathon of corruption until it passed by one vote. The senate passed it with changes. The house accepted the changes by "unanimous consent" (no vote), haha.
ancianita
(37,727 posts)to uncover where that money ends up, although medicare has been scammed before -- looking at you, Rick Scott -- because you can bet your last dime that payees won't see any savings.
stuffmatters
(2,575 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,652 posts)Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)Did anyone really think he would be able to keep the majority of his campaign promises? Like other politicians, he just said what he had to say to get elected, thats all.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)lower prices.
So I wonder how they will "dramatically improve the way negotiation takes place inside the Medicare program," with that provision that doesn't allow negotiation for lower prices? Are they going to negotiate the timing of shipments or something ELSE? It's all a lie. A LIE.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,138 posts)here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142057845 . Please either add this to that, or repost in GD or Editorials. Thanks.