GOP strips insulin out-of-pocket cap from bill: ‘Republicans have just gone on the record in favor of expensive insulin’


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GOP strips insulin out-of-pocket cap from bill: ‘Republicans have just gone on the record in favor of expensive insulin’
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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/gop-strips-insulin-pocket-cap-153418478.html

Republicans successfully stripped a proposed $35 per month cap on out-of-pocket spending on insulin for patients enrolled in private insurance from the tax and climate bill.

The Senate parliamentarian had ruled that the provision, sponsored by Georgia Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, is not primarily related to the federal budget. That gave the GOP a chance to raise a procedural objection.

Waiving the rules required 60 votes to succeed. Seven Republicans sided with Democrats to keep the insulin cap in the bill, but that was not enough. Democrats plan to use the GOP move to strip the insulin cap in the fall midterm campaigns.

Many in the GOP supported an amendment from Louisiana Senator John Kennedy to instead provide government funding to subsidize insulin purchases for low income individuals.

Democrats immediately attacked Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Marco Rubio of Florida, who are up for re-election, over their votes to strip a $35 insulin cap from the tax bill.

“Republicans have just gone on the record in favor of expensive insulin,” Oregon Senator Ron Wyden said. “After years of tough talk about taking on insulin makers, Republicans have once against wilted in the face of heat from Big Pharma.”
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GOP strips insulin out-of-pocket cap from bill: ‘Republicans have just gone on the record in favor of expensive insulin’
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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/gop-strips-insulin-pocket-cap-153418478.html

Republicans successfully stripped a proposed $35 per month cap on out-of-pocket spending on insulin for patients enrolled in private insurance from the tax and climate bill.

The Senate parliamentarian had ruled that the provision, sponsored by Georgia Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, is not primarily related to the federal budget. That gave the GOP a chance to raise a procedural objection.

Waiving the rules required 60 votes to succeed. Seven Republicans sided with Democrats to keep the insulin cap in the bill, but that was not enough. Democrats plan to use the GOP move to strip the insulin cap in the fall midterm campaigns.

Many in the GOP supported an amendment from Louisiana Senator John Kennedy to instead provide government funding to subsidize insulin purchases for low income individuals.

Democrats immediately attacked Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Marco Rubio of Florida, who are up for re-election, over their votes to strip a $35 insulin cap from the tax bill.

“Republicans have just gone on the record in favor of expensive insulin,” Oregon Senator Ron Wyden said. “After years of tough talk about taking on insulin makers, Republicans have once against wilted in the face of heat from Big Pharma.”
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I will bet you dollars to donuts, they will both be reelected.
 
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Here's a suggestion to screw with the House GOP. Call for a vote on an amendment to some bill to defund the police. It'll mess up their campaign messaging after yesterday's news. Put it on record and expose them LMAO
 
That is true but I want them to explain themselves when they go back to their home district.

They are not going to explain because certain questions are restricted. Hell when Letlow or any of those other Trump supporters come to this area they screen questions. They require people to place questions in a basket instead of allowing people to ask themself.
 
They are not going to explain because certain questions are restricted. Hell when Letlow or any of those other Trump supporters come to this area they screen questions. They require people to place questions in a basket instead of allowing people to ask themself.
Kinda similar to what Roger Ailes did for Nixon during his comeback in the late 60s. They got a room full of people that leaned right and gave him softball type questions to make him appear to be genuine to White America in the suburbs. Look. I get it. It won't work in the House but it sure as hell would work in the Senate which the Democrats will desperately need in the mid term just to get over that dumb filibuster.
 
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