Key Points

  • President Joe Biden said the federal Medicare program should negotiate prices for at least 50 prescription drugs each year, up from the current target of 20 medicines.
  • That proposal is one of several new health-care policy plans Biden will outline during his State of the Union address Thursday.
  • But the fate of his new proposals will be in the hands of a divided Congress, making it highly uncertain whether they will pass into law.
  • @go_go_gadget
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    110 months ago

    So you don’t care about it but you spend your time defending it from criticism. Sure buddy.

    • @FlowVoid
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      10 months ago

      The system can’t be changed in the near future. And it was deliberately designed to interfere with progress.

      I’m sure you can imagine a better system, but we don’t live in your imagination. So I don’t defend the system, I defend Democrats who do the best they can in spite of the system.

      • @go_go_gadget
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        210 months ago

        Lol. Oh, there it is “I’m not defending the system I’m just defending the people who have played a huge part in shaping that system.”

        So I’ll go back what I was saying earlier. You’re defending Democrats because you’ve benefited from their ineptitude while quality of life deteriorates for the rest of us.

        • @FlowVoid
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          010 months ago

          Not sure if you’re aware, but the Democrats you hate did not write the Constitution.

          • @go_go_gadget
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            10 months ago

            That doesn’t excuse them for being incompetent failures at best or outright corrupt at worst.

            Again, you are only defending them because you’ve benefited. You’ve yet to deny this. You got yours so fuck everybody else.

            • @FlowVoid
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              10 months ago

              Yes, I benefitted from the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Social Security, and the ACA. And you’re right, fuck the trust fund babies who had to pay higher taxes to support those programs.

              You didn’t benefit from them, so you must be among the lucky few who prospered under Trump. It all makes sense now.

                • @FlowVoid
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                  010 months ago

                  I’m not old enough for Medicare, but people who I love and support are. When they benefit, I benefit.

                  • @go_go_gadget
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                    10 months ago

                    If you’re only celebrating things that benefit other people the rest of your life must be pretty sweet. Unless you’re trying to tell me you’re suffering and in spite of that you don’t care you’re not seeing anything directly benefit you.