Trump, Insulin and Medicare

Fact Check: Insulin cap for Medicare unaffected by Trump order on prescription drug costs
A provision about insulin in the Inflation Reduction Act is conflated with a 2022 executive order by former President Joe Biden on lowering prescription drug costs in posts online that suggest President Donald Trump has canceled the $35 insulin co-pay cap for certain Medicare programs.
No, Trump Did Not Repeal Insulin Price Cap for Medicare Recipients
“Rescinding the cap on insulin at $35 only makes pharmaceutical richer and everyday Americans, including MAGA voters, seriously poorer,” Steven Bechloss—author of the Substack, America, America — posted to the Bluesky social media platform.
Where $2 prescription drug prices, Obamacare stand in Trump executive order onslaught
Trump stopped a program that had been in the works and was intended to give Medicare recipients access to more than 100 generic drugs for $2 a month, according to another executive order signed on Trump's first day in his new term.
Trump Order Didn’t Reverse All of Biden’s Measures to Lower Drug Costs
President Donald Trump rescinded an executive order issued by former President Joe Biden aimed at finding new models for lowering drug costs. Trump's action didn't affect the caps on seniors' drug costs or Medicare price negotiations that Biden signed into law.
Trump order signals shake-up in drug pricing innovation through Medicare and Medicaid
President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order rescinding Biden-era Medicare and Medicaid price innovation programs signals sweeping changes to the drug and treatment pricing agency within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and perhaps a substantive shake-up in two of the largest federal social welfare programs.
Fact Check: Message about insulin price increase announcements originated as satire
A satirical X post saying the three major insulin manufacturers in the United States had announced 2,000%-3,000% price ...
Will cost of insulin rise after Trump's executive action on healthcare? What we know
President Donald Trump voided an executive order signed by former-President Joe Biden aimed at lowering prescription drug ...
No, Trump did not get rid of Medicare’s $35 insulin cap
Despite online claims, President Donald Trump’s executive orders did not include removing Medicare’s $35 monthly ...
VERIFY: Did Trump end the $35 monthly insulin cap?
The judge who blocked President Trump's order to end birthright citizenship has put a 14-day restraining order in place while ...
Trump's Day One actions reversed Biden-era health policies, including efforts to expand ObamaCare
President Trump is rolling back Biden healthcare policies, such as expansions to the Affordable Care Act – a move Democrats ...
Boston Globe: 'Knock out the middlemen' is a campaign promise Donald Trump should keep
In 2021, the FDA approved a new insulin drug, Semglee, that was interchangeable with a brand-name insulin called Lantus.
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CA Insulin Production Behind Schedule | Immigration Enforcement in California | NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge
Gov. Newsom’s first-in-the-nation plan to produce cheaper insulin is behind schedule. Also, how President Trump’s immigration ...
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Letter: Stupidity abounds in early days of new administration
It takes a whole new level of ignorance and outright stupidity to withdraw from the World Health Organization and f orbid the ...