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[blackhawks]

I wouldn't assume that for the same reason that Willy Sutton gave for robbing banks.

What it looks like to me, 'on the surface', is that the Medicare drug price negotiation component is, again, better than nothing.

And now that it is codified let the GOP try to explain to their aging constituents why it's 'bad'.

[fuagf]

Don't forget the stuff on insulin you saw here: Drug industry poised for rare political loss on prices
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Another point of contention: Insulin .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/03/cheaper-insulin-plan/?itid=lk_inline_manual_31 .. would not be covered under the negotiation provisions, because the drugs will have generic competition. Also left out is a $35 proposed cap on the co-pay for consumer purchases of insulin. Groups including Public Citizen continued this week to press the Senate to restore the insulin provisions, which were included in earlier versions.

A separate bipartisan insulin effort led by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) appears to be taking precedent in the Senate’s strategy, even though the outcome of that measure remains uncertain, said Peter Maybarduk, director of the access to medicines project at Public Citizen. Democratic leaders were considering .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/28/biden-economy-house-chips-xi/#link-L25XRMGVWNC4TDQY5VPJQVWMLM?itid=lk_inline_manual_32 .. adding an insulin provision back into the reconciliation bill.
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Also, i'm with blackhawks in his saying something is better than nothing. Is good to be
skeptical, yet to be real you most often can't expect to get more than you manage to get ..
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=169534705 .

Better to strive for a relatively healthy and realistic skepticism than drift into a corroding and unrealistic cynicism.