dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

Vietnam Vet

The vulnerability that will keep him in office are the Democrat idiots who are announcing they will be running against him

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

Oh yeah his 42 percent eating keep him in office ..

Sorry I forgot. Lol

EyeSawYou

Ima gonna book mark this conspiracy for later humiliation of you mental Progressives in 2020. Lololol

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

Good glad you willing make more fool yuh self.

Rose42

Didn't you mean to write this? You're mixing your lingos. lol

"Yo pimp-tight glad you willing make mo' foo' yo'self you know das right!"

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

I guess you missed the part of the SOTU address where he mentioned reducing the cost of prescription meds.

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

That too. Lol

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

Well let's see it happen. Probably another wall. Lol

papakatz45 Loc: South Florida-West Palm Beach

Your picture is a true representation of most of your posts.

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

Like your collosal denials

lenben Loc: Seattle

In anticipation of the Pres doing something to cut the cost of pharmaceuticals, the companies have raised the prices on many of their drugs.

Shutterbug1697 Loc: Northeast

Yup, one drug went from being free, to costing $350,000 per year!

You just can't make that kind of price hike up!

Tex-s

Yes, but one side can rightfully say this is abusive, runaway capitalism and the other side can rightly say it is the result of one company (by law) being shielded from competition. The way the 350 000 is attainable is that 1) other companies are barred from making it, and 2) insurance companies (by law) have to pay it. So corrupt law (ACA) and corrupt contracts (exclusivity, for several years) screw the common guy.

Government and business are both corrupt.

lenben Loc: Seattle

As a physician I am on the front line on this issue. Medicare part D was written by pharmaceutical lobbiests paying of the GOP who at the time (Bush years) controlled the House and Senate. It forbids Medicare to negotiate prices - it must pay what they charge - no negotiation by law. {Medicaid, the VA and the Military can and do negotiate}. Many drugs were developed by US taxpayers in the form of Federal grants and NIH investigation. When proven they are handed over (free) to pharm companies to market them. Do they give the public a break given that most of the costs of development were by the public. Don't be silly. They say the cost to be charged is the VALUE of the drug to the person requiring the drug. Many cancer drugs in this pathway come at pricing like $10,000 per month for drugs needed to be used each month. Insulin, very basic drug, available for years at $40 per bottle, with no change in the cost of production, now comes at $400-600 per bottle. Insurance companies are your friend until you sign up. Then they fight tooth and nail to with hold payment for needed care. You, the patient, and your doctor spend hours of phone time, paperwork and repeated appeals to get basic treatment paid for. Is this for medical care? Of course not - it is to preserve the seven figure salaries of insurance company executives. Ask your doctor if they think insurance companies are interested in your health or add anything to medical care? It is well documented that pharm companies have raised the pricing on their products in the last 2 years in anticipation of possible controls from the Trump folks - although it is totally unclear how controls will be instituted because they will be interpreted as a violation of corporate freedom.