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albacore

(2,398 posts)
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 12:03 AM Mar 2023

Yes.. I know it was Bernie's project...

But Biden was the guy who got the insulin price dropped.
Bernie ... or Biden... doesn't make a difference to the poor people who need the stuff. The price is down, and the Dems did it. The Repubs fought it every inch of the way.

My (rhetorical) question is:
How can anybody depending on insulin... or the families of people depending on insulin... vote for a Republican?

WTF is wrong with people?

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Yes.. I know it was Bernie's project... (Original Post) albacore Mar 2023 OP
I think Joe and Bernie are more alike than different. RandySF Mar 2023 #1
Bernie & Joe BOTH deserve credit, and others too, but they're the heroes in this fight. InAbLuEsTaTe Mar 2023 #2
My concern is that this becomes a one-off. progressoid Mar 2023 #3
Well... Montauk6 Mar 2023 #4
Well spotted Hekate Mar 2023 #5
Indeed! 👍 Duppers Mar 2023 #8
Thank you President Joe Biden LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2023 #6
Lowering Pharma prices is a usual Democratic goal. Thanks Democrats! betsuni Mar 2023 #7
Politically, it was a Democratic Party plus I-Sanders project. Hortensis Mar 2023 #9

progressoid

(49,988 posts)
3. My concern is that this becomes a one-off.
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 01:11 AM
Mar 2023

The entire pharmaceutical industry needs to make over.

It's great that one drug from from one company will see a price cap. What about the rest?

Of course it's likely that Eli Lilly will spread the costs of cheaper insulin to other products they sell.

Montauk6

(8,075 posts)
4. Well...
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 01:16 AM
Mar 2023

You ARE dealing with a mentality that says get rid of Obamacare but leave ACA alone....

Just sayin'....

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. Politically, it was a Democratic Party plus I-Sanders project.
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 07:15 PM
Mar 2023

Of course, many others outside government, individuals and organizations, have been pushing for lower insulin prices for a very long time.

Thanks to Senator Sanders for speaking on this issue to those whose beliefs have been so badly subverted against Democrats that our people can't reach them. We really do need help from anyone who can -- and will -- get our message to those who won't believe it from us because they swallowed the vote-suppressing, progress-defeating narrative that Democrats and Republicans really are mostly the same.

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