{"id":52810,"date":"2022-09-27T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T20:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52810"},"modified":"2022-09-27T17:32:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T00:32:47","slug":"biden-pushes-drug-price-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52810","title":{"rendered":"Biden pushes drug price wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

President\u00a0Biden\u00a0on Tuesday celebrated recent prescription drug reforms, proclaiming that Democrats had finally delivered an elusive win against Big Pharma.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on the White House Rose Garden, Biden praised the Inflation Reduction Act, passed in early August, as \u201cone of the most significant laws in our history.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Biden referred to the signing of the bill as the fulfillment of a promise to the American people that has gone unanswered for decades.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe pay more for prescription drugs than any other advanced nation in the world and there\u2019s no good reason for it. For years, many of us have been trying to fix this problem, but for years Big Pharma has stood in the way. Not this year,\u201d Biden said. \u201cThis year, the American people won and Big Pharma lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The sweeping bill\u00a0included provisions allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices<\/a>\u00a0for the first time in its history and also placed caps on the cost of certain medications, though this too applied largely to seniors on Medicare.<\/p>\n

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Campaign fodder:\u00a0<\/strong>During his speech, Biden called out Republicans in Congress for not supporting the provisions in the bill aimed at lowering health care costs.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI wish I could say the Republicans supported this progress and reducing health care costs and strengthening Medicare. That would be good for all of America, but [they] had a very different idea,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEvery single Republican voted against the Inflation Reduction Act. When it actually came time to do something about inflation around the kitchen table, every one of them said no.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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