A New York Times article has described the latest scheme from the Orange Pox on buying votes from seniors, by getting Big Pharma to send out a bunch of “Trump Cards” valued at $100 each to seniors, which can be used to buy prescription drugs.
Big Pharma balked at the idea, showing it had more morals than the corrupt dufus in the White House. Or maybe just better political sense. Either way, it really takes something to stoop lower than even Big Pharma.
A Deal on Drug Prices Undone by White House Insistence on ‘Trump Cards’
It completely blew up a deal to help struggling seniors paying for their prescriptions.
Even by looking at what is happening all around us, it is a new low.
America’s seniors lost out on $150 billion in prescription drug cost relief after President Donald Trump’s “botched drug deal” over a demand for $100 “Trump Cards” be mailed to seniors before the election.
“After months of heated accusations and painstaking negotiations, the White House and the pharmaceutical industry neared agreement late last month on a plan to make good on President Trump’s longstanding promise to lower drug prices. The drug companies would spend $150 billion to address out-of-pocket consumer costs and would even pick up the bulk of the co-payments that older Americans shoulder in Medicare’s prescription drug program,” The New York Times reported Saturday.
Something positive could have been done — but once again, tRump has to make it all about him, stick his fingers in everything and turn everything to raw sewage.
“Then the agreement collapsed. The breaking point, according to four people familiar with the discussions: Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, insisted the drug makers pay for $100 cash cards that would be mailed to seniors before November — ‘Trump Cards,’ some in the industry called them,” the newspaper reported. “Some of the drugmakers bridled at being party to what they feared would be seen as an 11th-hour political boost for Mr. Trump, the people familiar with the matter said.”
This story has so far been given very little coverage. But for those who have seen it online, reaction has been scorching.
It is going to get even wilder as the last weeks tick by…..