• Former President Donald Trump recognized that the price of insulin is lower under President Joe Biden but still tried to take credit for it.
  • Trump has lagged Biden on the issue of health care in recent voter surveys.
  • Trump spent much of his term trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which covers roughly 45 million Americans, without offering an alternative health-care option.
  • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    uhh…

    the insulin price cap was instituted at the end of trumps term via executive order. I remember because a family member was overjoyed by it.

    when biden took office, the incoming regime stopped all the previous regime’s executive orders for three months. it happened a couple of days before the insulin price cap was supposed to take effect.

    it’s not exactly weird to try to take credit for something you did and someone else rebranded as their own thing.

    the article linked in the OP says as much, way down at the bottom after talking up how good the insulin price cap is and how polling on healthcare supports biden.

    i don’t usually end up in a thread saying “hey wait a second, trump actually did do that!” but dang.