“Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it. It was all done long before he so sadly entered office. All he does is try to take credit for things done by others, in this case, ME!” – Trump, posting to Truth Social.
The Hill reports:
President Biden has hailed the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the law which has a $35 cap on insulin for those with Medicare, as an important achievement.
“Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, instead of paying $400 a month for insulin, seniors on Medicare will only pay $35 a month,” the president said in a post on the social platform X late last year.
Biden’s campaign has made lowering the cost of prescription drugs through the Inflation Reduction Act a key reelection message for Biden, has touted passage of the IRA as one of his top achievements.
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The Inflation Reduction Act, which capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for Medicare patients, was signed in 2022. Trump was famously not President in 2022.
All he does is fucking lie, about everything. pic.twitter.com/Hcpm10qwb5
— Chris Jackson (@ChrisCJackson) June 8, 2024
Why is Trump lying and trying to take credit for a law that Dems passed and Biden signed? Because Trump knows he’s vulnerable on this issue. Biden lowered drug costs such as insulin.
In contrast, when Trump was president, he did a tax giveaway to billionaires and corporations. https://t.co/WX1W30KbHC
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 9, 2024
Trump says he will end President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which caps the cost of insulin at $35 a month and creates thousands of good-paying union jobs pic.twitter.com/q3qH5GuOJl
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 1, 2024
Trump started a program where private Medicare drug plans could cap insulin copays voluntarily at $35.
Biden has required a $35 insulin copay cap in Medicare and proposed extending it to people outside of Medicare. pic.twitter.com/grKeuv7NXD
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt) June 8, 2024