{"id":1025980,"date":"2023-10-04T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1025980"},"modified":"2023-10-04T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:18:00","slug":"reminder-2024-republicans-want-to-raise-working-families-health-care-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-2024-republicans-want-to-raise-working-families-health-care-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"REMINDER: 2024 Republicans Want to Raise Working Families\u2019 Health Care Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Biden announced another slate of drug companies committed to working with Medicare to negotiate prices \u2014 providing more relief for America\u2019s seniors.DNC spokesperson Sarafina Chitika released the following statement:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPresident Biden and Democrats are siding with middle-class families and America\u2019s seniors, and MAGA Republicans are siding with Big Pharma by leading the way to repeal the president\u2019s law that lowers prescription drug costs. That\u2019s the choice before the American people in November 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to President Biden\u2019s historic Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare can now negotiate directly with drug companies to lower prices for Americans who rely on lifesaving care. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NBC News<\/a>: \u201cMajor drug companies including Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb have committed to participate in Medicare drug price negotiations with the federal government, the Biden administration said Tuesday. \u2026 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services named the first 10 prescription drugs subject to price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction Act a little over a month ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey include Eliquis and Xarelto, two blood thinners; Januvia, a diabetes drug; and Enbrel, for rheumatoid arthritis. Last year, about 9 million Medicare enrollees spent $3.4 billion out of pocket on the 10 selected drugs, according to the administration. Under the new law, Medicare for the first time will be able to directly haggle with drugmakers over prices for the costliest medications to drive down the high cost of prescription drugs for older people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But 2024 Republicans are hellbent on getting rid of the Inflation Reduction Act, prioritizing politics over providing relief for hardworking Americans. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Insider<\/a>: \u201cFormer President Donald Trump on Friday slammed the Democratic-led climate, health, and tax bill, arguing that Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was \u2018taken for a ride\u2019 by Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis<\/a>: \u201cYou know, the good thing is I think there’s a pretty clear path to being able to reverse a lot of this stuff. The things he’s doing through executive order, you could reverse right away. But even what they did with the Inflation Reduction Act, they passed that via budget reconciliation in the Senate. So with 50 votes, I think, you know, we win the presidency, I’m pretty sure we would win the Senate and keep the House. And so at that case, what they put in by reconciliation, you could repeal by reconciliation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott<\/a>: \u201cI would simply eliminate the IRA, the Inflation Reduction Act, which of course, is a lie from the pit of hell. \u2026 I would start the process of gutting that legislation.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haley<\/a>: \u201c[The Inflation Reduction Act] is a communist manifesto.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pence<\/a>: \u201cIn yet another policy failure of the Biden Administration, the Inflation Reduction Act just signed into law undermines incentives to create new life-saving drugs through government-imposed price caps on prescription drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KARK<\/a>: \u201cIn a statement Thursday, Gov. Asa Hutchinson <\/strong>came out in opposition to the Inflation Reduction Act, currently under debate in the senate. The act, a significant part of the Biden presidential agenda, puts billions of dollars into energy extraction and IRS enforcement, as well as health care reforms in Medicare drug pricing and Affordable Care Act extension.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christie<\/a>:<\/strong> \u201cThe Inflation Reduction Act was a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burgum<\/a> <\/strong>on whether he would push to repeal the IRA: \u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For years, 2024 Republicans have attacked and tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act \u2014 which would leave millions of hardworking Americans without health care coverage. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NBC News<\/a>: \u201cTrump<\/strong> approved a surprise decision to push for the complete elimination of the Affordable Care Act in the courts. If it succeeded, millions of Americans would lose private insurance or Medicaid coverage and the health care system would be thrown into chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NPR<\/a>: \u201cThe very day President Trump <\/strong>was sworn in \u2014 Jan. 20, 2017 \u2014 he signed an executive order instructing administration officials \u2018to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay\u2019 implementing parts of the Affordable Care Act, while Congress got ready to repeal and replace President Obama’s signature health law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miami Herald<\/a>: \u201c\u2018Mike Pence: <\/strong>‘The first order of business is to repeal and replace Obamacare\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cAs a Republican serving in the U.S. House, [DeSantis]<\/strong> was part of a far-right caucus that voted against the first ACA repeal bill that leadership brought to the floor because, DeSantis and his allies said, it didn\u2019t undo enough of the law\u2019s protections for people with pre-existing conditions. GOP leaders eventually put forward a more aggressive repeal. DeSantis and his colleagues voted yes on that one, but it failed in the Senate.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: Tim Scott <\/strong>voted for all three major Republican-led proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live News 5<\/a>: \u201cGov. Haley<\/strong> speaks against Affordable Care Act, SC prepares for key deadline\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cDespite the fact that millions of people had enrolled in Obamacare, the health law remains a \u2018failure on a whole number of levels\u2019 and should be repealed, Christie <\/strong>said. But, he added, Republicans must also offer a concrete replacement. The conversation, he said \u2018must start from a position of repeal.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters<\/a>: \u201cGovernor Asa Hutchinson <\/strong>of Arkansas has signed legislation that will end by 2017 the state\u2019s innovative but controversial adaptation of the Affordable Care Act, which has provided nearly 190,000 residents with health coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HealthInsurance.org<\/a>: \u201cIn late 2017, Burgum <\/strong>and 19 other Republican governors wrote a letter to Congress, urging lawmakers to repeal the ACA. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Biden announced another slate of drug companies committed to working with Medicare to negotiate prices \u2014 providing more relief for America\u2019s seniors.DNC spokesperson Sarafina Chitika released the following statement: \u201cPresident Biden and Democrats are siding with middle-class families and America\u2019s seniors, and MAGA Republicans are siding with Big Pharma by leading the way to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nREMINDER: 2024 Republicans Want to Raise Working Families\u2019 Health Care Costs - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-2024-republicans-want-to-raise-working-families-health-care-costs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-04T13:18:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-2024-republicans-want-to-raise-working-families-health-care-costs\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-2024-republicans-want-to-raise-working-families-health-care-costs\/\",\"name\":\"REMINDER: 2024 Republicans Want to Raise Working Families\u2019 Health Care Costs - 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