The proposal is one of several new health-care policy proposals that Biden will outline during his State of the Union address Thursday.

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.
  • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
    21·
    9 months ago

    That doesn’t excuse them for being incompetent failures at best or outright corrupt at worst.

    Again, you are only defending them because you’ve benefited. You’ve yet to deny this. You got yours so fuck everybody else.

    • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Yes, I benefitted from the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Social Security, and the ACA. And you’re right, fuck the trust fund babies who had to pay higher taxes to support those programs.

      You didn’t benefit from them, so you must be among the lucky few who prospered under Trump. It all makes sense now.

        • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          I’m not old enough for Medicare, but people who I love and support are. When they benefit, I benefit.

          • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 months ago

            If you’re only celebrating things that benefit other people the rest of your life must be pretty sweet. Unless you’re trying to tell me you’re suffering and in spite of that you don’t care you’re not seeing anything directly benefit you.

            • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              9 months ago

              The ACA benefits me directly.

              But life isn’t necessarily “sweet” for people who have to take care of others. Plenty of people are struggling yet have to take care of their children and their parents. All of the legislation in that list helps to ease their burden.

              • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
                2·
                9 months ago

                But life isn’t necessarily “sweet” for people who have to take care of others. Plenty of people are struggling yet have to take care of their children and their parents. All of the legislation in that list helps to ease their burden.

                So your life sucks then? You seem to be having a difficult time explaining why you’re grateful to Democrats for what they’ve done without accidentally admitting it’s because you’re not suffering.

                • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  9 months ago

                  I never said I was personally suffering. But my loved ones are struggling in retirement and I’m deeply grateful for what Democrats have done for them.

                  You seem to think all that matters in life is whether you are personally suffering. You truly think like a Republican, every “I got mine Jack” accusation is a confession.

                  • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
                    2·
                    9 months ago

                    You seem to think all that matters in life is whether you are personally suffering.

                    How many decades of suffering am I supposed to put up with before I start insisting the things I care about need to improve too?

                    If you’re genuinely telling me this is my life in perpetuity and my attempts for something better are a moral failing then what’s left for me?