MedPage Today September 27, 2022
— “This year, the American people won and Big Pharma lost”
WASHINGTON — President Biden struck an unusually combative tone on Tuesday during a speech about healthcare costs, criticizing Republicans for trimming a bill to lower insulin costs and for wanting to sunset federal laws every 5 years, something he suggested could endanger Medicare and Social Security.
“If you’re on Medicare and you have diabetes, the cost of insulin will be capped at $35 a month per prescription,” Biden said during a speech in the White House Rose Garden. He was referring to one of the provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act recently passed by Congress.
Rather than just Medicare beneficiaries, “we want it to be the case for everybody,”...
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