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Written by Augie Ray on 2025-01-21 at 19:41

People voted for Trump to raise prices. In his first hours, Trump rescinded Biden's rules that delivered lower prices for medications to those on #medicare and #medicaid. On day one, Trump is delivering higher prices. Yet, I don't see much outcry from Conservatives. It's almost as if this wasn't ever about inflation or prices.

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Written by SpaceHistory, etc on 2025-01-21 at 20:01

@augieray There’s not outcry because that’s not what the Executive Order does. You’re a good guy, and I like a lot of the things you post here, but we can’t just be out there saying things that aren’t true. What Trump stopped was an EO that asked HHS to look and see whether or not some testing that HHS did in the past might lower costs. The cost lowering provisions of IRA are not touched by this.

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Written by Human 3500 on 2025-01-21 at 20:03

@rlpaulprodn @augieray Doesn't the US have the highest drug prices in the world? Surely that can be addressed so that it falls to the middle of the pack.

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Written by SpaceHistory, etc on 2025-01-21 at 20:11

@human3500 @augieray That’s what the IRA’s negotiation portion does. Biden worked super hard to get it, but got no credit for it. Regardless, that’s not what I was writing about. My point is that the executive order Trump signed yesterday does not do what Augie says it does. It doesn’t raise prices. It stops a study to look at whether another study might someday lower prices.

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Written by Human 3500 on 2025-01-21 at 20:13

@rlpaulprodn @augieray Can we agree it's a step towards maintaining our raising prices (since the outcome of the study might lower prices)?

I just hope the US can hold its democracy together. I'm not optimistic.

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Written by Augie Ray on 2025-01-21 at 20:29

@rlpaulprodn Media reports say this will raise drug prices. I think you are TECHNICALLY correct but perhaps ignoring the IMPACT of what Trump has rescinded.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-medicare-executive-order-explained-2018138

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-rolls-back-effort-to-lower-medicare-medicaid-drug-costs-c6d2b53d

https://www.alreporter.com/2025/01/21/trump-ends-program-to-lower-prescription-prices-make-disease-therapy-available/

It's like saying, "He didn't hit someone with a bat--he only swung the bat and it struck someone."

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Written by !JDA HAS MOVED! on 2025-01-21 at 20:24

@augieray you mean they voted for lower prices right? Not that it makes any sense but there you go

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Written by Phracker on 2025-01-21 at 21:51

@augieray

We need to start putting stickers on gas pumps with Trump pointing at the price saying "I did that." Fight fire with fire.

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Written by Augie Ray on 2025-01-21 at 21:55

@Phracker2Art I REALLY like that idea! :)

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Written by Phracker on 2025-01-21 at 21:58

@augieray

We'll have to wait until after Trump's tariffs ravage the economy of course.

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Written by thecampbell on 2025-01-21 at 21:54

@augieray Most of the people affected don't even know yet. They will learn fast.

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Written by HTPC NZ on 2025-01-21 at 22:47

@augieray I always say when a right leaning party and voters invent cost of living crisis, it is not about living, it is about cost of luxuries and any perceived impacts on their wealth. So their solutions are always tax cuts, privatisation, deregulation, exploitation and distraction, nothing to do with actual cost of living for someone actually in crisis struggling to get by day to day. Unfortunately people in that situation are easy pray for these conmen.

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Written by Austina Powers on 2025-01-22 at 01:28

@augieray Remember when the GOP said that EOs are unconstitutional every time Obama and Biden issued them? What changed? Kinda like voter fraud just disappearing. What happened to it?

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