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(7,847 posts)on his Twitter account .
Topic is price reduction of medicine
Saboburns
(2,807 posts)I had forgotten not everybody sees tweets on here. I shall endeavor to do better regarding that.
Many thanks!
Tetrachloride
(7,847 posts)a great many are now augmented with a caption by DU members to my great relief. online privacy is something i can do from my apartment.
Deuxcents
(16,248 posts)I never did get if the cap on insulin pasted. With the mess he inherited n a split senate that put themselves in park to avoid participating for the people but..he never gave up. I hope we can give him lots of Dems in the House n Senate this midterm n then watch what he can do.
Saboburns
(2,807 posts)I haven't seen him put a foot wrong as either a candidate or as POTUS. Not one.
If he gets more help in this election, the sky is the limit.
Joe Biden is the exact POTUS this country needs right now. He is the exact person to lead this country. And he's near flawless at being POTUS.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Ty fof sharing!
Rhiannon12866
(205,507 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)BaronChocula
(1,559 posts)It's the Democratic Party. Not the Democrat Party. We are Democratic. We are the Democratic Party. We are the ONLY party.
ffr
(22,670 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)TFG promised to lower drug prices but gave up when he was told that the GOP is owned by the drug companies. President Joe Biden succeeded where TFG failed.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/biden-succeeds-issue-trump-tried-failed-rcna43274?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
Trump even accused the drug industry of corruption, arguing that pharmaceutical companies contributed massive amounts of money to politicians as part of a scheme to keep the cost of medicines higher. In his first press conference as president-elect in 2017, he specifically complained, Pharma has a lot of lobbies, a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power. And theres very little bidding on drugs. Were the largest buyer of drugs in the world, and yet we dont bid properly.
Trump then took office, met with Big Pharma lobbyists, and promptly abandoned his earlier plans.
This morning, his successor will succeed where Trump failed. The Washington Post noted todays schedule at the White House:
President Biden is scheduled to return to Washington briefly on Tuesday to sign the Inflation Reduction Act, a sprawling bill that aims to lower prescription drug costs, address global warming, raise taxes on some billion-dollar corporations and reduce the federal deficit.
Theres no shortage of important elements in the Democrats reconciliation package, but among the most important is a breakthrough policy: For the first time, Medicare will be empowered to negotiate the cost of some of the most expensive prescription medications with the pharmaceutical industry.
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)should include "This is a BFD!"