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  • Big Blitz changed the title to Trump to issue EO lowering prescription drugs and pharmaceutical prices by 30 to 80 percent
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There are bunch of ways to lower health care costs.

 

Like when my Union negotiates for coverage for its membership. There's a ton of us, so we get great coverage at low prices.

 

Now I bet, if you got Robert Lighthizer to negotiate drug prices on behalf of all Americans aged 26 and over, we could some pretty great deals.

 

Instead, we get a ***** sandwich of virtue signaling and government-mandated price controls. 

 

Yeahhhhhh.

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58 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

His most “consequential” post ever


 

 

Socialism at its finest. MAGA you do not have to look under rocks fir dem dang socialists. You found them in the mirror.

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7 minutes ago, aristocrat said:

Dems gonna have a fun time spinning this one 

It will likely result in higher prices elsewhere. It sounds like we were subsidizing prices in poorer countries like Africa for instance. We paid more and they paid less. No more. Bill Gates will probably be on MSNBC saying Trump is killing millions of Africans 

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1 hour ago, Big Blitz said:

His most “consequential” post ever


 

 

If he has a great plan to lower prices, then Republicans should make it the law, as Biden did with drug prices in the Inflation Reduction Act. These executive orders have no sticking power. 

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34 minutes ago, Andy1 said:

If he has a great plan to lower prices, then Republicans should make it the law, as Biden did with drug prices in the Inflation Reduction Act. These executive orders have no sticking power. 

The government has negotiating power over drug coverage and pricing for Medicare and Medicaid but little over Commercial coverage. 

If you ask me the first thing I'd look at doing in the Commercial segment is bringing anti-competitive charges against insurers to force divestiture of PBM businesses. A couple being Optum Rx and CVS Caremark. 

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41 minutes ago, Andy1 said:

If he has a great plan to lower prices, then Republicans should make it the law, as Biden did with drug prices in the Inflation Reduction Act. These executive orders have no sticking power. 

Why do you hate the Prescripted, Andy?  
 

(I’m trying to get out in front of this one and People of Prescriptions doesn’t cover it)

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1 hour ago, Niagara Bill said:

Socialism at its finest. MAGA you do not have to look under rocks fir dem dang socialists. You found them in the mirror.


 

I agree.  Time to completely privatize health care.  You in?  

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2 hours ago, K D said:

It will likely result in higher prices elsewhere. It sounds like we were subsidizing prices in poorer countries like Africa for instance. We paid more and they paid less. No more. Bill Gates will probably be on MSNBC saying Trump is killing millions of Africans 


Bill Gates is already saying this due to USAID cuts. 
 

Might as well double down. 

 

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1 hour ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

Why do you hate the Prescripted, Andy?  
 

(I’m trying to get out in front of this one and People of Prescriptions doesn’t cover it)

No hate here. My comment was just leaning into the fact that the entire Trump 2.0 presidency is about executive orders. Republicans own all three branches, yet congress seems to be sleep walking, letting Trump issue order after order with no enactment of law to implement his agenda. What’s Mikey doing these days?  I remember the Republican outrage about executive orders when Biden or Obama issued them, but not a peep now. 
 

For reference, in eight years Bush signed 291 and Obama did 277 EOs. In four years Biden issued 162 EOs while Trump 1 issued 220. In a bit over 100 days Trump 2 has already signed 146. 

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