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“This was an unexpected victory in a long fight against an illegal cartel of three corporations who have raised their insulin prices in lockstep.”

The Biden Administration pleasantly stunned health care reform advocates Tuesday by including short-acting insulin in its list of 10 drugs for which Medicare will negotiate lower prices, power vested in the White House by the Inflation Reduction Act.

The IRA was passed in the face of one of the heftiest barrages of lobbying in congressional history, with the pharmaceutical industry spending more than $700 million over 2021 and 2022 — several times more than the second- and third-ranking industries — much of it aimed at stopping the legislation, watering it down, or undermining its implementation.

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[–] li10@feddit.uk 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

As someone from the UK, I don’t know what to make of the Biden administration.

I see positive news articles about what they’re doing, then I see people (not just right wing) saying it’s going poorly…

Obviously things can always be better and there are going to be areas where they’re failing, but how actually is it going over all?

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Biden is fine. A lot of people are looking for someone who is going to revolutionize things overnight. A lot of folks also like to give the President blame or credit for things out of his control. Overall I've been pleasantly surprised. All I really wanted was not Trump, but Biden has been a lot better than that.

[–] blue_zephyr@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel like he isn't a deranged narcissist who would nuke his own country if it somehow benefited him.

The bar is on the floor for the Republicans.

[–] sab@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To borrow a couple of lines written for the UK in the 60s:

Think the time is right for palace revolution
But where I live the game to play is compromise solution

Biden is a well meaning old man whittling away at the problems the best he can within the rules of the system. The problem is that the system has been rigged against working people for at least 40 years now; some people feel the problems go deeper than what you can solve by being by the book and doing politics as usual.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the truth is, biden and his peers are conservatives who do not believe that healthcare is a right. its only for those that can afford it. They attempt to appease the masses with these generous rebates on life saving drugs.

if the powers that be really cared about humans they would be pushing mass changes to the entire system, not placating businesses by keeping prices high while also pretending to negotiate for the unwashed.

follow the money, and all the money says "we dont care about healthcare or human beings"

that whole line about "but we cant affect change overnight. those crazy progressives!". motherfucker, ive been waiting 40+ years for them to do fucking anything that didnt line some providers pockets.

current democrats are fucking useless.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have no idea why you got downvoted on this comment. With the exception of the Democratic Socialist subset, most Democrats are pretty conservative. Remove the white Christian bigotry and they're pretty similar Regan era Republicans.

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Obama himself is quoted as saying that some of his own policies would make him a "moderate conservative" by 1980's standards. Then consider that Biden was picked as his running mate to appeal to the wing of the party that was more conservative than him.

[–] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Troglodytes that pretend they are above the team-sport aspect of politics fucking HATE when you point out what a limp dick milquetoast piece of shit Biden is and how his administration loves to shout about putting band-aids on bullet wounds, and the fucking neoliberals eat that shit up like candy.

PS:

fuck capitalism.

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago

"I have no idea why you got downvoted on this comment."

Literally no downvotes on the comment you're responding to. Until me, of course. You can have one too.

[–] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have an honest question. In the current political climate, how would Democrats go about changing everything?

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To me, Biden is like a bandage to stop the bleeding the Republicans were inflicting. When you are bleeding out, you don't really care what the bandage looks like or whether or not it's the perfect bandage. Now that the bandage has stopped the worst of the bleeding, I'm going to be a little pickier.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Just don't pick another knife.

[–] elevenfingerfrk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Things are better than they were under Trump in that our head of state is no longer an overt bigot that tends towards embarrassing antics. It’s more like how things were before. The problem is the way things were before sucked. So it looks better but still is a neoliberal cesspool on this side of the pond.

But at least we can still get a few hundred varieties of potato chips! We’re fine!