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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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      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.

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        4 months ago

        I think your expectations are too high. Democrats delivered at least as much as any other Congress in the past 50 years

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            4 months ago

            I’m not loyal to any system. I simply recognize that a system exists, even if one wishes otherwise.

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                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.

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                  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.

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                    4 months ago

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