Buying votes with our money

[Sooner-Be-Dead]

(Bloomberg) --
President Donald Trump said that Americans in the Medicare health-care program for the elderly and disabled will be sent $200 discount cards for prescription drugs ahead of the November election.


“Nobody’s seen this before. These cards are incredible,” Trump said. “The cards will be mailed out in coming weeks. I will always take care of our wonderful senior citizens.”

It wasn’t immediately clear who would pay for the cards or under what authority the Trump administration was providing them. Assuming they are sent to all 33 million Medicare beneficiaries, the cards would cost about $6.6 billion.

 

[95Hawk]

So...part of the “tremendous” health plan that Republicans have been pledging for 10 years as a replacement for ACA includes this $200 prescription drug coupon sent to Medicare beneficiaries “in the coming weeks”.

The nearly $7B that would he required to fund the coupons would come from Trump’s “most favored nation” drug pricing proposal.

Something that has not been implemented.

Trump also said that states and pharmacies can now import prescription drugs directly from Canada as of today.

The FDA has not published or finalized the regulation pertaining to imports.

To summarize: Trump is 1) lying about a replacement health care plan 2) promising unfunded drug savings to seniors and 3) touting removal of regulations on foreign import of prescription drugs that hasn’t actually occurred.

Oh...and the Trump administration is once again taking the ACA to the courts to have it declared unconstitutional. But he’s promising that a better plan exists...while 20 million Americans would immediately lose their health coverage.

This is your shit sandwich that you voted for, MAGAts.

 

[lucas80]

So...part of the “tremendous” health plan that Republicans have been pledging for 10 years as a replacement for ACA includes this $200 prescription drug coupon sent to Medicare beneficiaries “in the coming weeks”.

The nearly $7B that would he required to fund the coupons would come from Trump’s “most favored nation” drug pricing proposal.

Something that has not been implemented.

Trump also said that states and pharmacies can now important prescription drugs directly from Canada as of today.

The FDA has not published or finalized the regulation pertaining to imports.

To summarize: Trump is 1) lying about a replacement health care plan 2) promising unfunded drug savings to seniors and 3) touting removal of regulations on foreign import of prescription drugs that hasn’t actually occurred.

Oh...and the Trump administration is once again taking the ACA to the courts to have it declared unconstitutional. But he’s promising that a better plan exists...while 20 million Americans would immediately lose their health coverage.

This is your shit sandwich that you voted for, MAGAts.

He is who we thought he was. A confidence man.

 

[SeaPA]

Gotta respect trump's devotion to fiscal conservatism.

 

[Sooner-Be-Dead]

So instead of actually reducing drug costs, he’s going to give Big Pharma a $7B gift from the US Treasury.