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From Consevative Brief:
President Joe Biden exploded in a tirade while delivering a speech in Pennsylvania on Friday as he discussed issues related to the economy in a bid to bolster his sagging approval ratings.

?Imagine being the parent making the minimum wage or twice the minimum wage and having a child with type one diabetes, knowing that if you can?t and have no insurance, knowing if you cannot get that money for the insulin, the child may die,? Biden said.

?In addition to your child, it strips you of your dignity, damn it,? Biden claimed. ?Can you imagine looking at your child and you know what they need and not be able to do it? Many of you have lost children. Many of you have seen, imagine, it?s outrageous.?

Regarding Biden?s remarks about insulin, several social media users pointed out that the administration of President Donald Trump actually managed to lower the price of insulin, but Biden?s administration rescinded the agreement.

?The deal struck with the nation?s insulin manufacturers and health care providers will limit the co-pay for a month?s supply of insulin to $35 ? a 66 percent reduction to current costs, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said,? the New York Post reported in May 2020.

The rule was finalized in December 2020, but the Biden administration delayed implementation twice before it finally took effect in July 2021. However, Biden?s Department of Health and Human Services never implemented it and the rule was finally withdrawn in October.
 

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?We are deeply grateful the Biden Administration put the brakes on such a harmful rule within hours of taking office. Health centers, bipartisan Members of Congress and leaders within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have indicated that this rule will do more harm than good at a time when too many people are suffering,? said Tom Van Coverden, President and CEO of NACHC. ?We hope that this is further acknowledgment that a pandemic is no time to destabilize the safety net. Certainly, the high cost of prescriptions remains a national crisis ? but health centers are already part of the solution to this problem, and the regulation would have burdened them with excessive red tape without doing anything to lower how much drug companies charge for drugs.?

https://www.nachc.org/president-biden-freezes-insulin-epipens-regulation-harmful-to-community-health-centers-and-patients/
 

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Thanks Jack. Cricket is lost, as usual.

Cricket: It's hard to take you seriously when you are completely fucking clueless. The Build Back Better bill specifically has provisions in it to lower prescription drug prices and ZERO Senate Republicans will vote for it. This is that "pork" you tell us is the problem.
 

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U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, who opposed the Trump administration rule, said in a news release that ?by targeting the centers providing these medications to those without insurance or the means to get the care instead of big pharmaceutical companies, HHS risks making things worse for a community already in need. Community Health Centers provide critical lifelines in our communities. They aren?t the reason why drug costs, especially insulin costs, are too high in this country.?

Our ruling: Missing context
We rate this claim about the Biden administration's action to be MISSING CONTEXT, based on our research. Some patients who use insulin and EpiPens ? the fraction who are served by federally qualified health centers ? may benefit from Trump's order, but others could suffer if it results in decreased access for the centers to the 340B drug discount program. Also, the freeze through March 22 does not represent final action on the program, so it's premature to call it a "reversal."

Our fact-check sources:
Federal Register, Executive Order No. 13937
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, July 2020, "Trump Administration Announces Historic Action to Lower Drug Prices for Americans"
Bloomberg Law, July 28, 2020, "Insulin, Epinephrine Price Breaks Unlikely Despite Trump Order"
Kaiser Health News, Aug. 26, 2020, "Trump Again Claims He?s Bringing Down Drug Prices, But Details of How Are Skimpy"
White House, Jan. 20, Regulatory Freeze Pending Review
National Association of Community Health Centers, "President Biden Freezes Insulin/Epipens Regulation Harmful to Community Health Centers and Patients"
PolitiFact, Jan. 26, "ISIS, drug prices and COVID-19 deaths: How a viral post misleads on Biden's first days in office"
U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration, About the Health Centers
American Diabetes Association
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, "Anaphylaxis in America"
Rep. Cindy Axne news release
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/newrepublic.com/amp/article/164551/insulin-build-back-better-pharma

Those are problems that insulin copay caps can?t solve. Of the known patients who died of insulin rationing over the past several years, most didn?t have insurance at all. While copay caps do help people with high deductibles?or perhaps even change the material calculus of whether insurance is ?affordable??they don?t caulk the many holes in the coverage landscape that make life so dangerous for patients whose survival depends on constant management of their condition. In a system where coverage isn?t universal with the most minimal possible cost-sharing, you simply can?t run drug-pricing relief through the insurance system?however much drug companies may like it. (Unsurprisingly, many state-level insulin copay cap bills were championed by manufacturers.)
 

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This is one tiny issue within the wonderful world of Health Care in the US.

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What do those countries all have in common? They don't have Universal Health Care.
 
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