Winston Churchill once said that “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” It often seems like the Biden White House and campaign has embraced that warning as an operating principle. The most recent target was the veteran Fox news anchor John Roberts, who was accused of airing “a blatant lie” in questioning Biden’s claim that he was the first president to push through a cap of $35 on insulin treatments. Roberts was entirely correct, but the campaign has still not removed the false attack on his integrity and accuracy.
In the interests of full disclosure, I am a legal analyst for Fox News and I have known Roberts for decades. There is no one who I hold in higher regard for his integrity or his intellect than John Roberts. We have known and worked with each other at different networks through the years. Roberts is an old-school journalist with impeccable credentials.
Yesterday, the Biden campaign launched the attack on Roberts for his questioning of the claim of President Joe Biden that he solely secured the insulin cap. Roberts remarked that he had a recollection that it was former President Donald Trump who pushed the cap.
“I seem to remember that back in May of 2020, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid said that President Trump had signed an executive order to cap the price of insulin for Medicare recipients at 35 bucks. Now, maybe I’m misremembering that, but I think it kind of already happened.”
The Biden campaign then called it “a blatant lie” in a posting on X that has reached over a million people.
Contrary to the Biden campaign’s claims, Roberts’s recollection was entirely correct. Under the Trump Administration, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in May 2020 that the Part D Senior Savings Model participating plans would cap insulin copays to $35 per month’s supply, and over 1,750 Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans applied to offer lower insulin costs.
Trump praised the new policy, which was widely covered by the press.
There was a Rose Garden event where Trump was praised for his actions:
Trump later, in July 2020, signed four executive orders aimed at lowering the cost of insulin. That included Executive Order 13937, which required Federally Qualified Health Centers to pass 340B discounts on to patients. Notably, Biden later reversed Executive Order 13937 before those cost-saving measures could take effect.
This is obviously not the first false statement from the President. However, it is notable that his campaign spread obvious disinformation that was picked up by over a million people but then declined to take down the false claim. The campaign is now in a worse position. To take down the posting is to acknowledge not just that it has lied about Roberts, but that the President lied in taking sole credit for this cap.
This is the same administration supporting the banning, blacklisting, and throttling of those responsible for disinformation. I would not support such censorship of the campaign. This and other columns refuting the false account is sufficient to combat a “blatant lie” by the Biden campaign. Whether it is his uncle being eaten by cannibals or insulin caps, free speech can correct false claims without government regulation. However, President Biden and his administration continue to push for censorship of others accused for false or misleading statements.
The fact that John Roberts was right is hardly surprising. However, there remains a “blatant lie” on the Biden campaign’s social media that must still be corrected.
Oh look, a Democrat using the N word, and then laughing about it..ages ago. Scratch a Democrat, find a racist.
Surely the local DA will charge him with a few felonies for rigging his election, being a criminal, lying on his campaign reports, yada yada yada
Republicans slam vulnerable New Mexico Democrat for use of a racial slur and uncovered criminal history
When the employee didn’t know who he meant, he said, “Chris, the n*****,” and the employee hung up. He called back to another employee and asked for Chris again, saying, “Chris, the black man,” before laughing and hanging up.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3025945/republicans-slam-vulnerable-new-mexico-democrat/
@JuicyJuicy – did you hear the latest? Reporting crime is “racist”.
All biden knows how to do is buy or pressure for favors. he’s a low-iq thug. He and his party do not know how to make things fundamentally better for anyone, and can only muster short-term favors for some, but only if there is an immediate benefit to him personally. He is basically a mobster. Funny we don’t hear much about organized crime much anymore…wonder where those types went. (Hint: Wall St., K Street, Congress, and now the white house).
I should add that he and his party are playing for long-term benefits for the CCP since clinton
I hate to rain on your communist parade, but the most blatant of blatant lies herein is Medicare and any and all other forms of governmental interference in or regulation of the medical industry’s free enterprises in the free markets of the private medical sector, which are all irrefutably unconstitutional.
It is, in fact, the government that is severely limited and restricted, while individuals are provided maximal freedom by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Your mistake is following the motto of Karl Marx: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
You are prohibited from acting on that communist directive by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, specifically Article 1, Section 8, and the absolute 5th Amendment right to private property.
Congress has no power to regulate medical healthcare, pharmaceuticals, or the prices of any private-property product or service.
Before the “dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., hired help)” is forcibly imposed, please cite the Constitution for authority or a legal basis.
Of course, you cannot.
Do people have the power to give power to Congress?
Jonathan: Every administration likes to brag about its accomplishments–especially during an action year. DJT did that in 2020 when he touted his policy to give seniors, who enrolled in Part D of Medicare, to get insulin for $35. Only one hitch. It didn’t apply to seniors who had not signed up for Part D–only a small subset of the 60 million seniors on Medicare. DJT bragged about that policy to seniors to get their vote. Didn’t help him in 2020. He lost the senior vote and polls show he will lose that vote as well this year.
The reality is that through Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act seniors saw reductions in a whole range of drugs–not just insulin. DJT never proposed or implemented that. And under Obama Care, that DJT proposes to dismantle or replace, millions of Americans now have affordable health care–something again DJT never proposed. In his State of the Union Biden proposed a cap on insulin prices for EVERY American–not just those on Medicare. Has DJT proposed that? Nope.
So what has DJT planned if he gets back in office? His “Project 2025” calls for, among other things, the repealing or replacement of the ACA, a nationwide ban on abortion, eliminating the DOE and Dept. of Commerce, deploying the US military to crack down on protests, dismantling the FBI and Homeland Security. And that’s just for starters. Now this may appeal to the MAGA crowd–but for the rest of voters this year? Probably not so much because DJT’s “Project 2025” is a prescription for a dictatorship!
Now when it comes to “blatant lies” what about DJT’s false claim that Biden’s FBI was authorized to assassinate him at Mar-a-Lago? Your friends at Fox ran with that lie. Fox prime host Jesse Waters exclaimed: “Biden unleashed armed agents into Trump’s house authorizing them to use deadly force”. Fox MAGA sycophants Jeanine Piro, Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo, they all echoed these blatant lies. All these hyperbolic lies came on the cable channel where you work! So when you shout to the heavens about the claimed “blatant lies” of Joe Biden I can only yawn.
So when you shout to the heavens about the claimed “blatant lies” of Joe Biden I can only
yawnswallow.+1000000
Where has that finger been?
Why don’t you put a cork in it?
Dennis.
PPACA and the Inflation reduction act ? Could you have picked more ironic legislation ?
Since PPACA passed:
The US mortaility rate has risen slowly and steadily from 8.4/100000 to 9.6/100000
Interestingly if you graph it the increase is linear.
You can not see Covid in the graph AT ALL – there is no deviation from trends in 2020 or 2021 nor any decline in 2023.
The price of health insurance has gone up dramatically -it does evey single time the government tries to make healthcare more affordable, the result is ALWAYS making it less afforadable. Worse still – the price has gone up DESPITE $2T/decade in government subsidies.
There has been massive consolidation in healthcare – Small and medium doctors offices have gone the way of the dodo bird.
Catholic hospitals – which were 1/3 of the hospitals in the country are now pretty close to entirely gone – atleast in my state.
I can go on at length but the gist is Simple – there are no measurable positive benefits of PPACA and a very long list of negatives.
And the Inflation reduction Act ? Really ?
Do I actually need to say anything at all about that massive inflation causing turd ?
Why in the world would you cite it ?
Trump has repeatedly and publicly announce that he will not seek and not sign any federal abortion legislation.
All you are doing is lying to try to scare people.
“repealing or replacement of the ACA”
Good
” a nationwide ban on abortion”
Bogus claim
” eliminating the DOE and Dept. of Commerce”
Good
“deploying the US military to crack down on protest”
Don’t start violent protests and we will not have to consider whether we need to do that.
I do not beleive we will, but we have in the past, it just depends on how violent the left gets.
“dismantling the FBI and Homeland Security”
Good.
“Probably not so much because DJT’s “Project 2025” is a prescription for a dictatorship!”
In what world is REDUCING government a perscription for dictatorship ?
Do you actually think before you post ?
“Now when it comes to “blatant lies” what about DJT’s false claim that Biden’s FBI was authorized to assassinate him at Mar-a-Lago?”
Not false – Democrats are NOT claiming it is false, they are claiming it is normal. It is not. More lies from the left,
And you apparently are too stupid to get your left wing nut talking points correct.
“Biden unleashed armed agents into Trump’s house authorizing them to use deadly force”
Technically it was AG Garland that had to sign off on Deadly force, so Waters is incorrect in details but not substance.
“Fox MAGA sycophants Jeanine Piro, Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo, they all echoed these blatant lies.”
Again not a lie – still can’t get your left wing nut talking points right.
“So when you shout to the heavens about the claimed “blatant lies” of Joe Biden I can only yawn.”
I thought “appeal to the heavens was some right wing racist confederate thing ?
Still can’t keep your left wing talking points straight.
John Say,
Another epic take down of Dennis!
Well done!
Dennis – you are so poorly informed that I am far more familiar with the ACTUAL claims of the left and the Biden administration than you are.
John Stuart Mill said that if you only know your own side of an argument – you know very little.
But you do not even know your own side very well.
The best test of bias in thinking is whether you can articulate accurately the positions of your oponents.
I can and have accurately described the arguments of most of those on the left.
But I can only rarely do so for you – because you are ignorant of the arguments of your own side on issues.
How ironic that Turley accuses Biden of rescinding Trump’s insulin order and lying about it. Here’s what APP Fact Check says, in relevant part:
“More claims can be found on Facebook here, here and here.
Annually rising insulin costs are a burden for the 7.4 million American adults who use it to manage their diabetes. If insulin becomes unaffordable, individuals may try to ration it, a step decried as having led to several deaths in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
But the executive order, which was signed by Trump on July 24, 2020, has not been revoked.
The final rule implementing the order was to take effect on January 22, 2021 but, two days earlier, on the first day of his administration, Biden’s Chief of Staff Ronald Klain issued a memorandum for a regulatory freeze. It aimed “to ensure that the President’s appointees or designees have the opportunity to review any new or pending rules.”
This action did not automatically reverse or rescind Trump’s order regarding insulin, as claimed in the social media posts.
Such a freeze is also not unusual for an incoming administration, Jing Luo, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, told AFP via email.
Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus issued a similar memorandum on January 20, 2017.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Trump touted his order on insulin in ways that made it seem as if it would have a broad impact on prices, but the rule was narrowly targeted, according to Rachel Sachs, associate professor at the Washington University in St Louis School of Law.
“The rule as it was finalized would never have applied to all or even most Americans,” she said by phone.
If implemented, it will require that Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) — which serve about one in 11 Americans, including homeless and vulnerable populations — offer the discounted price they receive when they purchase insulin and injectable epinephrine (EpiPens) through a federal program called 340B.
Sachs said these centers already provide some free care and discount drugs for people living at less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, meaning $34,840 for a family of two. The new rule would expand those discounts to FQHC patients with incomes up to 350 percent of poverty — $60,970 for a family of two.
“Those are very important patients that we should be caring for,” Sachs said, but the exact number of additional patients who would have seen discounts is far from all diabetics who are facing large insulin bills.
The University of Pittsburgh’s Luo agreed that “the number is small since only about 30 million total people receive care at FQHCs and certainly a minority of them have diabetes and a minority of those use insulin.””
So, the situations are NOT comparable.
Sadly, President Biden has a history of lies, made up stories that he ‘remembers’ as truths, and exaggerations. This is not new. Cognitive loss doesn’t get better so we will see more of this behavior. It is sad when this happens to anyone but far worse when it happens to the President of the US!
Perhaps, as Trump supporters have been labeled by one of the people a past thread, there is a cult — but he got it wrong — it is the Biden Cult!
CNN Poll today
Immigration is 2nd most important issue for US voters per CNN
WOULD BIDEN OR TRUMP DO A BETTER JOB ON BORDER SECURITY / IMMIGRATION?
Trump 27% vs Biden 1%
WHO U.S. VOTERS BORN OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY PREFER FOR PRESIDENT
Trump 47% vs Biden 44%
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/politics/video/trump-biden-2024-election-us-immigration-ldn-digvid
Fake news. Wow. I knew those numbers were wrong. Why would you blatantly misconstrue the results of CNN stats?
At 70 seconds in, the screen shows the following: “WOULD BIDEN OR TRUMP DO A BETTER JOB ON BORDER SECURITY / IMMIGRATION?”
It shows that, in June 2020, the results of that poll showed Biden had a 1% advantage over Trump.
In May 2024, Trump has a 27% advantage over Biden on that same issue.
It does not say that 1% of respondents preferred Biden and 27% preferred Trump.
Was this an intentional error, or did you not understand the graphic in the CNN video?
The Biden administration’s comments of the capping of insulin copays is about as truthful as the Obama administration’s truthfulness on the UnAffordable Care Act.
We all know that Joe was there to crack the Liberty Bell, Dip the pen in the inkwell so Cornwallis could sign the surrender at Yorktown, See off Lewis and Clark, Worked at the War Dept with Jefferson Davis, Did not get to play football at the naval academy because of Joe Bellino and Roger Staubach, Attended a world class law school, Never threatened to withhold funding from Ukraine until they fired a prosecutor (that interview on videotape was obviously a product of AI) and his son Beau died in the war and he never brought it up while being interviewed by the special counsel but that videotape is now hidden by triple dog dare executive privilege, especially since we all now have multiple edited copies of the “original transcript”.
Oh, look !!!
Biden just closed the border, despite Republican efforts to keep it open.
Fox host: It was your colleagues in the Republican Party who torpedoed your border bill, not Democrats
GOP Sen. Lankford: It was. Trump said don’t fix anything, so my colleagues looked for a reason to shoot against it
Fox host: That’s on Trump
Lankford: He’s got an office he’s running for
Biden said he couldn’t do what he did today???? Biden could have done what he did today 3 years ago!!!! Democrats could have passed the House bill that actually would have shut the border.
“Anonymous”, keep staying anonymous because you lie about as much as that lunatic in the WH.
So how does that change the fact that Trump ordered the Republican House to block REPUBLICAN Lankford’s bill.
After taking steps on his first day in office to undo border security, Biden starts his speech with: I’ve come here today to do what Republicans in Congress refuse to do, secure the border. pic.twitter.com/sffPQ8iiCo
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) June 4, 2024
FLASHBACK: January, 2024. Biden claims he has no executive authority to do anything about the border.
“I’ve done all I can do. Give me the power!!”
Today, with his immigration polling in the tank and an election 5 months away, he suddenly has the power.
🤡🌎 pic.twitter.com/UrfSUtx6Dz
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 4, 2024
The truth is that Joe Biden’s Executive Order won’t STOP the invasion—it will make the invasion WORSE.
We recently learned, Biden is secretly granting mass amnesty to hundreds of thousands of these illegal aliens, along with welfare, government benefits, work permits, and jobs. pic.twitter.com/uVEI6u4uwj
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) June 4, 2024
IN NO WAY should Biden’s executive order be described as “shutting down the border.”
— It does NOT stop or slow the 1,500 illegals/day being released into the country by showing up at ports of entry via the CBP One app.
— It does NOT stop the 30K… pic.twitter.com/9yBRazunTh
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 4, 2024
Karine Jean-Pierre confirms Biden is no longer considering executive action to secure the border — even though he dismantled border security by executive order immediately after taking office. pic.twitter.com/n1q665Wexn
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 12, 2024
President Biden has engineered a wide-open southern border and is now trying to convince Americans that he wants to address the chaos he created.
The American people know better. He intentionally created this crisis and an executive order won’t change that. pic.twitter.com/4CsnkmG0Cl
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) June 3, 2024
@UpststaeFarmer
So how does this lengthy pile of nonsense change the fact that, according to Lankford, Trump ordered the House Republicans to block his bill?
You cultists obviously want the border to remain open.
It forced Biden to follow Trump’s lead and look like a fool and a bad decrepit liar in saying he had done everything the executive could.
In summary, LIAR and FOOL.
Respectfully, HB, Biden did nothing today actually. This (inadequate) EO will never be implemented. Leftists NGOs already suing and I suspect (if not already) a judge will stop it cold.
So now you are rooting for the courts to strike down the EO and force Biden to OPEN the border.
This probably makes sense in the addled mind of Trump cultist.
I strongly suggest that you donate to the ACLU in order to help them fight this egregious attempt to OPEN THE BORDER.
For you convenience I have posted the ACLU donation page here:
https://action.aclu.org/give/now?ms_aff=NAT&initms_aff=NAT&ms=web_hero_redesign_hp&initms=web_hero_redesign_hp&ms_chan=web&initms_chan=web
Does Biden do anything this isn’t associated with winning this election?! Whatever happens at the border is too late!
Does Trump do anything that isn’t associated with winning this election?
China causes friction by being a one-party communist dictatorship.
Been there, done that! My dear husband had a terrible time getting his test strips and other diabetic supplies. He died in 2021 and I feel a lot of what went wrong was due to the fact that he had trouble keeping track of his numbers because that was before all these new ways to monitor such things.
Another Biden lie,
“First, Biden repeats the common Democratic folklore that Trump wants to “abandon” US alliances, and in particular wants to “eviscerate” NATO. At this point, this is just pure mind-melting myth. Trump brags to this VERY DAY about how he secured additional spending commitments from NATO member states.
It makes zero sense for Trump to “eviscerate” NATO, a key tool of American hegemonic power, which Trump bombastically pledges to maintain and expand.
Absolutely nothing from the actual record of the Trump Administration reflects doing anything to substantively undermine NATO. Rather, the opposite: He literally signed off on two rounds of NATO expansion, and he elevated Ukraine into a NATO subsidiary status. He increased the funding of the Pentagon funding vehicle for US troops in Europe. He set up new military garrisons in Poland.
Trump even recently posted an endorsement of his pro-NATO stance from the NATO secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg.
This is so disastrous because it perpetuates the political dynamic whereby Trump is given incentive to further demonstrate how steadfastly supportive he is of NATO, to refute this never-ending myth.”
— https://x.com/mtracey/status/1798010014977884473
Another great comment from Upstate!
HullBobby,
Hat tip to independent journalist Michael Tracey.
Fact-checking the President ended when Biden stepped into office.
But will resume again when/if Trump wins again.
C’mon man you know the thing.
Stolen Valor. This administration is so void of accomplishments beneficial to the citizens of this country that they have to do this in an election year. What’s next; claim Biden’s DOJ is conducting a political persecution of Hunter Biden?
Captain Crunch is under investigation for stolen valor. There is no record of him ever serving in the military. He is a fat fraud.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/01/07/consider-reminder-capn-crunch-def
Shoigu has flown to Scotland!
IT IS THEIR DUTY!!!
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
“Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776
Biden lies. Dog bites man. Sun rises in east.
Professor Turley,
This whole discussion is, frankly, silly. You should know that the President does not have the authority to set the price of drugs. Neither Trump nor Biden can mandate a cap of $35 for all patients needing insulin.
The facts:
1) Trump in July 2020 signed an executive order that aimed to cut drug costs for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), which serves about 1 in 11 Americans, including the homeless and vulnerable populations. The order, however, was never funded. It failed to give FQHC the money to cover these benefits. It never took effect and was rescinded because Trump did not include a way to pay for the action. In other words, he did it for the tweets but never actually helped anyone with this order.
2) In May 2020, Trump created a program which SOME Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage plans agreed to voluntarily cap out-of-pocket insulin at $35 for a month’s supply. But, this was voluntary, not mandated. In other words, only those who switched plans (or already enrolled in one of the participating plans) could take advantage of it. The benefit went into effect in 2021 and was unchanged when Biden took office. With the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden required all Medicare Part D plans and certain Medicare Advantage plans to eliminate the deductible for “covered insulin” and cap the co-payment at $35 per month. The IRA expanded Trump’s Part D model and made it a requirement rather than an opt in program.
3) Neither Trump nor Biden extended insulin cost caps to people with private insurance plans or those who are uninsured.
Like I said, this whole thing is silly from both sides. The only common thread — both Presidents tried to make populist appeals in an election year for votes.
Please do read the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The entire communistic American welfare state is unconstitutional including, but not limited to, admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and “…general (all, the whole) Welfare…,” omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual Welfare, specific Welfare, particular Welfare, favor or charity. The same article enumerates and provides Congress the power to regulate ONLY the Value of money, Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes, and land and naval Forces. Additionally, the 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification, and allowing ONLY the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over private property.
The above concerning the availability of $35 insulin under Medicare Part D is not completely correct
– No Medicare Part D plan is MANDATED to cover insulin at all.
– The 2020 CMMI and the 2022 wording of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act concerning Part D are basically identical. The Biden administration recognizes that fact on the CMMI web page https://www.cms.gov/priorities/innovation/innovation-models/part-d-savings-model. I think the anonymous commenter agrees with this
– The number of Part D plans that participated in 2022 and 2023 under the CMMI and participated this year under the so-called IRA are pretty much the same
– Only about 7% of people on Medicare even use insulin and half of them have received it free since 2006 thanks to George W. Bush; the rest paid an average of $45 in the year before the CMMI went into effect
– The vast majority of Part D plans (and public Part C Medicare Advantage plans that have integrated Part D benefits) have no deductibles for drugs such as insulin
In other words all of this Biden nonsense about insulin and Medicare is malarkey.
(Biden deserves some credit for jawboning some suppliers into supplying some of their insulin products to people not on Medicare for $35.)
Dennis,
You wrote: “The number of Part D plans that participated in 2022 and 2023 under the CMMI and participated this year under the so-called IRA are pretty much the same.” Do you have a citation for this?
Are you basing that entirely on the words, “more than 2,500 prescription drug plans” for 2023, compared with the “2,159 prescription drug plans” referenced in 2022?
From HHS: “Under the Inflation Reduction Act, out-of-pocket costs for insulin in Medicare are now capped at $35 per monthly prescription for Part D, as of January 1, 2023, with a similar cap taking effect in Part B on July 1, 2023. Medicare beneficiaries who use insulin would have saved $734 million in Part D and $27 million in Part B if these caps had been in effect in 2020.”
https://aspe.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/bd5568fa0e8a59c2225b2e0b93d5ae5b/aspe-insulin-affordibility-datapoint.pdf
I am not sure we can glean much from the very general information on that CMS website.
Anonmymous
No, I am not simply using the words in the Turley blog post if that is your question. The data is available in after action reports on the CMMI done by CMS for 2021 and 2022 (I assume they did not do one for 2023 because the CMMI had been subsumed by the IRA). I think I provided the link
The second half of your reply to me does not seem to be a question but states some math on potential savings. $747,000,000 seems weirdly high but typical of leftist propaganda. According to CMS
– only about 3,000,000 people on Medicare use insulin
– half of them have gotten it free for 18 years (so would not make any effort to switch out of a plan no matter what its plan cost was but on the other hand by law of averages would likely already be in one of the 2000 plans where $35 was the price)
– about 1,000,000 took advantage of this program in 2022
– the average OOP cost for insulin on a Part D plan in 2020 was $54 (that’s per KFF which I think got it from CMS)
– CMS never considers State Pharmacy Assistance Programs in such calculations
Assuming a third of the 1,000,000 were already getting it free, then 666,000 people saved $19 month. That’s $230 a year or so per person. That’s around $140,000,000 if I did the zeros right, not $747,000,000, and the “savings” would be much less factoring in SPAPs (used by the people who did not qualify for “free”).
This whole subject is Joe Biden malarkey but I think that’s what you said in your original comment
It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if some wackjob staffer wrote that post thinking they were attacking the credibility of SCOTUS.
Another lie?
I would expect nothing less (or better) from those people