Biden says Medicare should negotiate prices for at least 50 drugs each year, up from a target of 20
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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.
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Democrats only had a Senate supermajority for 72 days.
Furthermore, a supermajority of exactly 60 votes only allows Democrats to pass something that 100% of them support. And Lieberman did not support anything more far reaching than the ACA, such as a public option.
Don't let facts ruin their narrative.
What's your narrative? Democrats had control of both the Senate and the house with a Democrat president for years and somehow it's still Republicans fault they did basically fuck all with it?
Doesn't change the fact. Democrats had control of both the Senate and the house. They squandered it.
On the contrary, they squeezed everything they could out of that majority.
And if that's not sufficient evidence to believe either our Democracy is completely broken or Democrats are corrupt or incompetent then you must be someone who's continuing to benefit from all of this while quality of life deteriorates for the rest of us.
No, it's evidence that Democrats are diverse. Not all of them agree with me or with you.
And in a democracy, legislation requires building a consensus. That means nobody will get everything they wanted.
I'm really sick of this lecture as if I don't understand that. I'm a human being who lives in reality I'm very familiar with not getting everything I want. I don't buy a car for $20,000 and then complain it doesn't have the quality of a $300,000 car. I will complain when the $20,000 car doesn't deliver what I expect for a $20,000 car. This is no different. Democrats held a majority in congress for four years. What they delivered with that kind of opportunity was inexcusably insufficient.
I think your expectations are too high. Democrats delivered at least as much as any other Congress in the past 50 years
And I think you're blindly loyal to a system which has benefited you.
I'm not loyal to any system. I simply recognize that a system exists, even if one wishes otherwise.
So you don't care about it but you spend your time defending it from criticism. Sure buddy.
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.
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.
Not sure if you're aware, but the Democrats you hate did not write the Constitution.