Trump breaks key campaign promise on Medicare
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Source: Think Progress
"If we have to bid out pharmaceuticals, we're bidding them out. We're going to save billions and billions and billions of dollars."
RYAN KORONOWSKI MAY 11, 2018, 12:09 PM
On the campaign trail, candidate Trump promised to save hundreds of billions of dollars standing up to the pharmaceutical industry, and said he’d “negotiate like crazy” to bring down Medicare prescription drug prices.
Allowing Medicare to negotiate directly with drug companies for better prices has long been a goal for progressives, and when voters heard Trump stray from the Republican party orthodoxy, railing against Big Pharma as he asked for their support, many likely thought his promises would mean something different in Washington, D.C. if he were elected president.
Sadly, they were wrong.
Ahead of the Friday speech announcing the plan, senior administration officials told reporters that “we are not calling for Medicare negotiation in the way that Democrats have called for,” instead characterizing Trump’s plan as outlining “important changes that will dramatically improve the way negotiation takes place inside the Medicare program.”
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-drug-price-negotiation-broken-promise-9ecd90e23b63/
If you are in the Part D program like myself and millions of others, one of the main assholes that is doing this besides this idiot.............is Paul "ayn rand" Ryan, his fingerprints are all of this..................and the elderly and those on expense drugs are now under the threat of blackmail, yet again....................
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Donnie Two-Scoops’ new campaign slogan is “Promises made. Promises kept.”
I guess some exclusions apply here.
OK, not “some.”
Rather “many.”
Probably “most!”
Hey, it’s all about appealing to his cognitively-challenged base.
