DrLove
Diamond Member
So THIS is his vaunted new health car plan - Is he f'n KIDDING?
First of all, he can't do that without congressional approval. Secondly, without my Obamacare I'd be paying 500 bucks a MONTH for one of my prescriptions. Jesus H - Does the stupidity ever end ... EVER?
First of all, he can't do that without congressional approval. Secondly, without my Obamacare I'd be paying 500 bucks a MONTH for one of my prescriptions. Jesus H - Does the stupidity ever end ... EVER?
During a rally to unveil his new, predictably thin and gimmicky health care agenda on Thursday, Donald Trump made the surprise announcement that his administration would send $200 gift cards in “in coming weeks” to 33 million senior citizens that they could use to pay for prescription drugs. “Nobody has seen this before,” the president said, accurately. That Trump was publicly declaring his intent to bribe elderly voters just before an election using public money was lost on nobody. Less clear is how the president actually intends to execute this latest scheme, or if it’s even the tiniest bit legal.
The $200 coupons appear to be a fallback plan, hatched after a deal between the administration and the pharmaceutical industry to lower prescription medicine prices collapsed earlier this month. The agreement, in which companies would have spent $150 billion to bring down out-of-pocket costs for consumers, fell apart after White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows demanded that drugmakers pay for $100 drug discount cards that the administration would then mail to voters before the election, as the New York Times reported. The companies balked for the understandable reason that participating in an obvious campaign ploy might create bad “optics“—i.e. piss off the Democrats who could control Washington a few months from now.
Donald Trump’s Scheme to Bribe Seniors With $200 Gift Cards Is Not Obviously Legal
Everyone sees what this is: The president using public money to sway voters before an election.
slate.com