House Bill to Lower Insulin Costs PASSES - 193 GOPers Voted AGAINST it - Just 12 Voted FOR

[PinktheFloyd88]

House passes bill to lower insulin costs, but prospects unclear in Senate

The House passes a healthcare bill that would cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin users at $35 a month, but its prospects in the Senate are unclear.

www.latimes.com

The measure would cap insulin costs at $35 a month for consumers enrolled in both private health insurance plans and Medicare. Currently, based on the patient’s condition and choice of treatments, costs can range from $334 to $1,000 a month for insulin, according to a 2020 Kaiser Family Foundation report.

This is a really good bill. If you know any Diabetics - it is a very expensive and unfair lifestyle. Those poor people pay a truckload for treatment. Anything to help their burden is great.

193 GOPers voted against it of course. Thoughts?

 

[1srelluc]

The only thing I can figure is that the dems folded something else into the Bill the gop found repugnant.

I don't care enough to investigate though.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

House passes bill to lower insulin costs, but prospects unclear in Senate

The House passes a healthcare bill that would cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin users at $35 a month, but its prospects in the Senate are unclear.

www.latimes.com

The measure would cap insulin costs at $35 a month for consumers enrolled in both private health insurance plans and Medicare. Currently, based on the patient’s condition and choice of treatments, costs can range from $334 to $1,000 a month for insulin, according to a 2020 Kaiser Family Foundation report.

This is a really good bill. If you know any Diabetics - it is a very expensive and unfair lifestyle. Those poor people pay a truckload for treatment. Anything to help their burden is great.

193 GOPers voted against it of course. Thoughts?

The doctors who invented insulin thought it should be distributed FREE OF CHARGE

 

[ThisIsMe]

House passes bill to lower insulin costs, but prospects unclear in Senate

The House passes a healthcare bill that would cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin users at $35 a month, but its prospects in the Senate are unclear.

www.latimes.com

The measure would cap insulin costs at $35 a month for consumers enrolled in both private health insurance plans and Medicare. Currently, based on the patient’s condition and choice of treatments, costs can range from $334 to $1,000 a month for insulin, according to a 2020 Kaiser Family Foundation report.

This is a really good bill. If you know any Diabetics - it is a very expensive and unfair lifestyle. Those poor people pay a truckload for treatment. Anything to help their burden is great.

193 GOPers voted against it of course. Thoughts?

Give it a minute til it's discovered what pork was stuffed into it to show why repubs objected.

 

[Dekster]

House passes bill to lower insulin costs, but prospects unclear in Senate

The House passes a healthcare bill that would cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin users at $35 a month, but its prospects in the Senate are unclear.

www.latimes.com

The measure would cap insulin costs at $35 a month for consumers enrolled in both private health insurance plans and Medicare. Currently, based on the patient’s condition and choice of treatments, costs can range from $334 to $1,000 a month for insulin, according to a 2020 Kaiser Family Foundation report.

This is a really good bill. If you know any Diabetics - it is a very expensive and unfair lifestyle. Those poor people pay a truckload for treatment. Anything to help their burden is great.

193 GOPers voted against it of course. Thoughts?

My thoughts are that if it is enacted, prices for the uninsured will go through the roof and you will stop seeing investment in additional drug research for diabetes. This would fail just like rent controls have failed to alleviate the housing/homelessness problem. You can NEVER legislate your way around capitalism as long as capitalism provides investors an alternative place to put their money for better returns.

 

[pknopp]

I can read the OP's link so I found another and I have a question.

"We want lower prices for drugs, particularly for insulin," said Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga, during debate. "But instead of fixing a broken system, this bill aims to control it," he adding, calling the bill a "socialist plan."

House passes bill to cap insulin prices

I'll try and find the info myself also but anyone have any idea?

 

[pknopp]

My thoughts are that if it is enacted, prices for the uninsured will go through the roof and you will stop seeing investment in additional drug research for diabetes. This would fail just like rent controls have failed to alleviate the housing/homelessness problem. You can NEVER legislate your way around capitalism as long as capitalism provides investors an alternative place to put their money for better returns.

What good is additional research if people can not afford it?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Give it a minute til it's discovered what pork was stuffed into it to show why repubs objected.

Of course, this is a possibility that just flew straight over the OP's head.

 

[PinktheFloyd88]

What good is additional research if people can not afford it?

Ignore him

 

[Manonthestreet]

again trying to take credit for something Trump initiated and libs cancelled

 

[Dekster]

Ignore him

Why you never do. Send Mr. Soros our love.

 

[pknopp]

again trying to take credit for something Trump initiated and libs cancelled

And it seems Rep Buddy Carter supported when it came up under Trump.

The Blame Game: Everyone And No One Is Raising Insulin Prices

Now, before anyone goes there, I am NOT defending one hypocrisy over the other. I am wondering why we continue to support these people?

 

[dblack]

Free shit!!

 

[FA_Q2]

Free shit!!

Funny enough, if they really wanted it cheaper they could just open the market up for it.

There should be some recourse for those companies that use patent protection to screw customers. Our current patent and drug laws are a complete mess. This is what directly leads to overpriced drugs in the first place.

 

[dblack]

Funny enough, if they really wanted it cheaper they could just open the market up for it.

Of course. It's is all about government protected monopolies. Government "solving" problems it creates, with more problems

 

[JGalt]

House passes bill to lower insulin costs, but prospects unclear in Senate

The House passes a healthcare bill that would cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin users at $35 a month, but its prospects in the Senate are unclear.

www.latimes.com

The measure would cap insulin costs at $35 a month for consumers enrolled in both private health insurance plans and Medicare. Currently, based on the patient’s condition and choice of treatments, costs can range from $334 to $1,000 a month for insulin, according to a 2020 Kaiser Family Foundation report.

This is a really good bill. If you know any Diabetics - it is a very expensive and unfair lifestyle. Those poor people pay a truckload for treatment. Anything to help their burden is great.

193 GOPers voted against it of course. Thoughts?

My thought is why did Joe Biden freeze Trump's previous $35 cap on insulin, and then put it back in a bill that had a whole bunch of other shit that no sane Republican would ever support?

Trump’s insulin order frozen, not scrapped, by Biden

Have you even seen all the other stuff that's in the bill along with the $35 insulin cap?

 

[PinktheFloyd88]

My thought is why did Joe Biden freeze Trump's previous $35 cap on insulin, and then put it back in a bill that had a whole bunch of other shit that no sane Republican would ever support?

Joe Biden is not in the House of Representatives, he's the President.

 

[DarthTrader]

The doctors who invented insulin thought it should be distributed FREE OF CHARGE

Are they too fucking lazy to make it themselves and distribute it FREE OF CHARGE?

What's stopping them? Oh right......reality.

 

[JGalt]

Joe Biden is not in the House of Representatives, he's the President.

Trump passed the insulin cap with a simple executive order. The only reason the House became involved in this case, is because they wanted to pass a bunch of other stuff.

 

[dblack]

Trump passed the insulin cap with a simple executive order. The only reason the House became involved in this case, is because they wanted to pass a bunch of other stuff.

Do you think dictating prices is the President's job?