Trump promises seniors $200 prescription drug gift certificates, but questions abound

[SouthernCal_Dem]

I'm sure he would like the gift certificates to have his name on them....

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https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/seniors-200-gift-certificates-prescription-drug/

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday pledged to send $200 prescription drug coupons to 33 million Medicare beneficiaries “in the coming weeks,” a nakedly political ploy to curry favor with seniors who view drug prices as a priority.

Trump’s promise comes less than six weeks before Election Day, and represents the latest step in his administration’s (and his campaign’s) efforts to amass health care talking points, even if their actions do little to save Americans money.

The administration is getting its authority to ship the coupons from a Medicare demonstration program, a White House spokesman told STAT in a statement. The nearly $7 billion required to send the coupons, he said, would come from savings from Trump’s “most favored nations” drug pricing proposal. That regulation has also not yet been implemented — meaning the Trump administration is effectively pledging to spend $6.6 billion in savings that do not currently exist. The cards, he said, would be “actual discount cards for prescription drug copays.”

[Moostache]

1. You can tell how out of fucking touch he is....$200? One time?

Medications are one of the things that force seniors into choices like cutting pills, taking partial doses or not eating / eating cat food to survive. $200 may help once. Then what? That's not a plan, it's another slap in the face. It's like throwing money at a homeless person and calling them names while doing so.

[at140]

2. Buying votes is a felony, right?

[Retrograde]

8. Your point being?

What's a few more felonies anyway? And just where is this money coming from in the first place? The House isn't going to appropriate anything, so he has to rob some of his other pet money-wasting projects. Hmmm - I see how he went bankrupt so many times, if this is how he handles his resources: just keep as many balls in the air as possible and hope nobody notices.

[Iliyah]

3. Why? . ..

shithole has already said to going to steal the elections through the courts.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Buying votes with national debt.

[yardwork]

5. This is stupid. Many recipients don't need the $200, while others need far more.

This is a waste of money and an obvious ploy to buy seniors' votes.

My 85 year old mother voted absentee today. I was her witness. She voted straight Democratic. She couldn't wait to vote against Trump.

[moonscape]

6. Well that should pay for my chemo. n/t

[ooky]

7. If I get that money it's going straight to Jaime Harrison's campaign. nt