We cannot have a fair debate without dedicated fact-checkers that pause the candidates and refute the lies from Trump (sure, and Biden if he does). Anything less is just letting him continue his strategy of spewing falsehoods faster than they can be corrected.
Trump will just dismiss the fact-checkers as biased and continue.
This is why there should be no audience at such things and the mic should go utterly dead when they violate the rules and/or it’s not their turn.
Trump DID in fact have an executive order in place that capped the price of insulin and EpiPens when he left, which Biden immediately froze on his first day in office.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-insulin-epipen/
https://factcheck.afp.com/trumps-insulin-order-frozen-not-scrapped-biden
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/trumps-executive-orders-on-prescription-drugs/
It’s very debatable if trump’s EO would have capped the price of Insulin or Epipens in a meaningful way - and its factually wrong that it was the same cap and legislation that Biden put into place.
Trump’s EO meant that Federally Qualified Health Centers would have to offer Insulin and Epinephrine to “Low Income Individuals” without health insurance "at the discounted price paid by the FQHC grantee or sub-grantee under the 340B Prescription Drug Program” plus a “minimal” fee.
From your own link, FQHCs already had a requirement to not charge anything to people in poverty, so “If ‘low income’ is defined as under 100% of poverty, this may not really change anything. Even if the income level is set somewhat higher, most patients likely would still have been protected by the sliding fee scale without this change”.
This link, like your others, is from 2020. I don’t know how “low income” would actually have been defined since it wasn’t scheduled to come into place until Jan 22nd - during Biden’s administration.
It’s true that Biden froze this - as others have mentioned in this thread, he put a 60 day freeze on all pending legislature when taking office, which is a fairly standard practice.
Biden’s own Insulin cap was part of the Inflation Reduction Act, and capped the price of Insulin to $35 monthly for products covered by Medicare D.
So yeah I concede that it’s an oversimplification to say that Trump did nothing and Biden did everything, but… the Insulin cap is Biden’s legislation. Trump did not cap Insulin or Epipen prices during his 4 years in office.
According to Bloomberg Law, “A regulatory pause is a common tradition among incoming presidents to ensure that the unfinished policies from the prior administration align with the new one.”
The freeze ended March 22nd and the cap is in affect.
*effect
So Trump isn’t wrong then when he says Biden is taking credit for something he already did, is he.
Yes. Trump is lying again.
The price cap on insulin passed by congress and signed by Biden is an actual price cap. The EO from Trump was not. It was words with no effect for most insulin users
Executive orders, like Trump’s insulin price cap, can easily be undone.
Biden signed the IRA, which permanently capped insulin prices. So Trump is wrong when he says Biden “had NOTHING to do with it”.
Yes, it’s possible that Biden improved on Trump’s solution by making it an actual law rather than an EO.
Either way, this is really just political posturing from both sides. Both of them are exaggerating their own achievements in order to dunk on their opponent when in reality, each of them just made incremental improvements.
Yes, welcome to the end game of a two party system. Now vote for the guy who doesn’t have a violent extremist group under his wing. Then we can implement ranked choice when democracy doesn’t die. You call yourself MacN’Cheezus but you are talking like MacN’Cheelzebub.
Whee, it’s both sides time!
Trump has absolutely no shame, he’s a narcissist liar piece of shit. It’s more like for a small bribe he would try to prevent it.
I remember when Trump tried to claim credit for pharmacies putting price caps on a variety of medicines by a bill he passed, when that bill changed nothing because it was already a policy the pharmacies had enacted years prior.
That’s what Biden did last year when he claimed they negotiated lower meds for Medicare. When in reality the patents were expiring in those drugs and lower cost generics were about to hit the market anyway
You mean the cap trump had in place before Biden struck it down?
[citation needed]
OPs article also addressed this
Trump signed an executive order to put it in place later. Biden on day one paused everything to vet whether it aligned with where he wanted to steer the country. He decided to not do that by something as flimsy as an executive order and made it a piece of a big bill that was signed into law, protecting it beyond the whims of a future president. Trump’s administration deserves credit for mobilizing it, but executive orders probably don’t have the teeth to actually make that idea come true and definitely are far from permanent. Now it is the law of the land, and that’s because it went through both parts of Congress and then was signed into law. It is indisputable that charging more for insulin is against the law, and this law was a textbook case of legislating constitutionally. Big pharma has no grounds for suing or not complying, but they might’ve if it were just an executive order.
You used more words in this explanation than that guy has ever read.
Never miss an opportunity to jump in and waive that big ‘Biden Bad’ flag do ya?
They are projecting like Republicans do, and like MAGA, BlueMAGA is rallying around their flavor of fascism.
Accuse others of doing what you are guilty of.
Trying desperately to paint them both the same is a tired old schtick.
They are the same paint
