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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeal on drug prices collapsed due to WH insistence on "Trump cards"
AKA ham-fIsted bribe to seniors.
Lhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/politics/trump-drug-prices.html#click=https://t.co/lCNVmuWeRw
"After months of heated accusations and painstaking negotiations, the White House and the pharmaceutical industry neared agreement late last month on a plan to make good on President Trumps longstanding promise to lower drug prices.
The drug companies would spend $150 billion to address out-of-pocket consumer costs and would even pick up the bulk of the co-payments that older Americans shoulder in Medicares prescription drug program.
Then the agreement collapsed. The breaking point, according to four people familiar with the discussions: Mark Meadows, Mr. Trumps chief of staff, insisted the drug makers pay for $100 cash cards that would be mailed to seniors before November Trump Cards, some in the industry called them.
Some of the drugmakers bridled at being party to what they feared would be seen as an 11th-hour political boost for Mr. Trump, the people familiar with the matter said."....(more)
BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)Nope, not possible. I had to close my windows since I have been ranting all day (to myself) and the Secret Service probably has me on their radar by now.
riversedge
(70,182 posts)No doubt he would have his signature on the checks also.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Those little $300 check some people got. (Mine was $60, BFD)
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,107 posts)We are definitely in the End Times. Or Hell has frozen over. With the wacky weather patterns from CC, it's a coin toss.
dansolo
(5,376 posts)The Trump administration wanted the drug companies to pay for them, effectively giving an in-kind contribution to the Trump re-election campaign. The drug companies aren't really the "good guys" here. They just refuse to be extorted.
kysrsoze
(6,019 posts)This second grade/Pablo Escobar-type shit. Im partly astounded and partly not.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)I may not be a senior, but I don't know of anyone who would want a "Trump Card" even if it was worth 100 bucks. Because some how that money is going right into that bastards back pocket!
sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)Puerto Rico, after 3 years of treating them like sh*t.