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One of the items in the "New Threads" box was "TRUMP Lowers Prescription Prices".
When I went to check it out, I found it was in the Conservatives Only DIR.
I went to Google to see what was going on.
I copied and pasted the thread title into Google and the first four entries that came up were all from the Administration. The fifth one was from...
Oh, good, I thought. I can finally see what''s actually going to happen to my drug prices besides what the Trump propaganda asserts.
The first thing that caught my eye was the date...
Almost exactly one year ago the Trump administration made the same kind of announcement. I haven't seen any changes to my drug prices over the past year. Have you?
Is this just another of Trump's make the sheeples feel good headlines? Make a big splash announcement, and hope that satisfies the faithful. Then do nothing for a year and announce it all again. Yay!
A little more digging finally brought up an article explaining the details...
There's a lot more in the article, but you get the point.
When I went to check it out, I found it was in the Conservatives Only DIR.
Trump Administration Announces Historic Action to Lower Drug Prices for Americans
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 24, 2020
Contact: HHS Press Office
202-690-6343
[email protected]
Trump Administration Announces Historic Action to Lower Drug Prices for Americans
Today, President Donald Trump took historic action to deliver lower prescription drug prices to American patients. The President signed four Executive Orders on drug pricing directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take several steps to deliver for American patients lower costs on prescription drugs, including insulin and epinephrine, and ensure Americans are getting the lowest price possible for their drugs.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 24, 2020
Contact: HHS Press Office
202-690-6343
[email protected]
Trump Administration Announces Historic Action to Lower Drug Prices for Americans
Today, President Donald Trump took historic action to deliver lower prescription drug prices to American patients. The President signed four Executive Orders on drug pricing directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take several steps to deliver for American patients lower costs on prescription drugs, including insulin and epinephrine, and ensure Americans are getting the lowest price possible for their drugs.
I went to Google to see what was going on.
I copied and pasted the thread title into Google and the first four entries that came up were all from the Administration. The fifth one was from...
Oh, good, I thought. I can finally see what''s actually going to happen to my drug prices besides what the Trump propaganda asserts.
The first thing that caught my eye was the date...
Trump administration announces plan to lower drug prices
Trump administration moves to lower pharmaceutical drug costs.
By
Sophie Tatum
July 31, 2019, 2:21 PM
2019? Trump administration moves to lower pharmaceutical drug costs.
By
Sophie Tatum
July 31, 2019, 2:21 PM
Almost exactly one year ago the Trump administration made the same kind of announcement. I haven't seen any changes to my drug prices over the past year. Have you?
Is this just another of Trump's make the sheeples feel good headlines? Make a big splash announcement, and hope that satisfies the faithful. Then do nothing for a year and announce it all again. Yay!
A little more digging finally brought up an article explaining the details...
Trump Tackles an Old Promise to Lower Drug Prices
Trump Tackles an Old Promise to Lower Drug Prices
July 24, 2020BRANDI BUCHMAN
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President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order on lowering drug prices Friday in the South Court Auditorium in the White House complex. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON (CN) — Paying lip service to an issue often trumpeted by his campaign, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders Friday aimed at driving down drug prices, with little chance of enforcement before Election Day.
Among the orders announced Friday from a stage at the Eisenhower Executive Office building set to look like a pharmacy, one directs health centers receiving discounts on EpiPens and insulin products for diabetics to pass those savings on to consumers. Seema Verma, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, notes that the average the cost of insulin for seniors would be $35.
The executive order does not have immediate power, but Trump said Friday the directive would bring the cost of the drug down to just “pennies a day.” To enact the change, the administration would face regulatory burdens as well as likely litigation from pharmaceutical companies that have historically pushed back on any attempt by the federal government to control prices.
Another order signed Friday would allow states, wholesalers and pharmacies to import prescription drugs from Canada where prices for identical drugs are lower.
The administration rolled out its first iteration of this plan last December with little follow-through amid a pointed note by Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., that “Canada’s market for pharmaceuticals is too small to have any real impact on U.S. drug prices.”
In yet another order, Trump said he would bring back the “rebate rule” that ends rebate payments drug manufacturers pay to insurers. The president did not elaborate on whether rebates would be completely nixed or if savings would be split with patients, and the White House has not released the text of the executive orders.
Trump’s announcement of this order at the press conference devolved into a minutes-long diatribe against “middlemen, or -women, I guess.”
...
“We’re taking bold historic very dramatic action to reduce the price of prescription drugs,” Trump said. “Previous administrations did nothing as lobbyists and drug companies ripped off our citizens.”
Trump Tackles an Old Promise to Lower Drug Prices
July 24, 2020BRANDI BUCHMAN
FacebookTwitterEmail
President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order on lowering drug prices Friday in the South Court Auditorium in the White House complex. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON (CN) — Paying lip service to an issue often trumpeted by his campaign, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders Friday aimed at driving down drug prices, with little chance of enforcement before Election Day.
Among the orders announced Friday from a stage at the Eisenhower Executive Office building set to look like a pharmacy, one directs health centers receiving discounts on EpiPens and insulin products for diabetics to pass those savings on to consumers. Seema Verma, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, notes that the average the cost of insulin for seniors would be $35.
The executive order does not have immediate power, but Trump said Friday the directive would bring the cost of the drug down to just “pennies a day.” To enact the change, the administration would face regulatory burdens as well as likely litigation from pharmaceutical companies that have historically pushed back on any attempt by the federal government to control prices.
Another order signed Friday would allow states, wholesalers and pharmacies to import prescription drugs from Canada where prices for identical drugs are lower.
The administration rolled out its first iteration of this plan last December with little follow-through amid a pointed note by Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., that “Canada’s market for pharmaceuticals is too small to have any real impact on U.S. drug prices.”
In yet another order, Trump said he would bring back the “rebate rule” that ends rebate payments drug manufacturers pay to insurers. The president did not elaborate on whether rebates would be completely nixed or if savings would be split with patients, and the White House has not released the text of the executive orders.
Trump’s announcement of this order at the press conference devolved into a minutes-long diatribe against “middlemen, or -women, I guess.”
...
“We’re taking bold historic very dramatic action to reduce the price of prescription drugs,” Trump said. “Previous administrations did nothing as lobbyists and drug companies ripped off our citizens.”