5 ms·

We had a president that addressed this but people didn't like that he sent 'nasty' tweets. then his successor overturned the order and we all celebrated.

actinium226 6y ago
OK, I'm legitimately curious to know more. I do remember him talking about "making insulin as cheap as water" or something like that, but can you point me to the actual executive order or bill he was trying to pass that dealt with this issue of lowering the cost for prescriptions? A source about Biden overturning whatever it was would be great as well. I don't preclude Trump from having actually done something meaningful, but a lot of what he does is vain and self-promoting, so I could easily see this being a case where he tried to put something into effect that looks good on the surface but doesn't actually accomplish anything, or doesn't accomplish it in a sustainable way and thus would need to be revoked to prevent prices going up in the long term.
- fny 6y ago
  > ...can you point me to the actual executive order or bill he was trying to pass that dealt with this issue of lowering the cost for prescriptions? [0]: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=trump+prescription+executive+order https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=trump+prescription+executive+... [1]: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=biden+trump+prescription+executive+order https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=biden+trump+prescription+exec...
  - monkeywork 6y ago
    The condescending nature of using LMGT make me just ignore you.
kmos17 6y ago
I remember him making a lot of noise about making insulin super cheap or giving us the best and cheapest health plan to replace obamacare, he had a full 4 years in office to accomplish this, including two years with complete control of congress. So what exactly did he accomplish?
DanHulton 6y ago
What an incredibly puerile, reductive, and dishonest way to describe a man who ruined countless lives in countless vicious ways. This is such an obviously bad-faith comment. Have more respect for the people you're conversing with, for this site, and for yourself.
- dang 6y ago
  Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of what someone else posted. It just makes this place even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - DanHulton 6y ago
    Fair, apologies.
pfisch 6y ago
I'm sorry, but he didn't. I thought it was a great idea, but issuing a bunch of scattershot EOs that never actually get implemented is not addressing anything. The problem is that in reality he was all sending nasty tweets and no actual substance.
- barbacoa 6y ago
  Trump's EO on lowering insulin prices never got implemented because biden rescinded it.
  - pfisch 6y ago
    Trump waited until 2020 to sign a bunch of fake healthcare EOs that had little chance of being implemented. What was he doing the previous 3 years on healthcare beyond trying to strip all of it away??? He only did this to distract from COVID and even when he wrote the EOs everyone said they were going to get jammed up in the courts forever. I'm not going to play pretend about things trump really truly wanted to do but waited 3.5 years until the middle of a pandemic, and then never implemented.
dang 6y ago
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You started out with a good post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24915604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24915604), but since then have been breaking the site guidelines. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

actinium226 6y ago

OK, I'm legitimately curious to know more. I do remember him talking about "making insulin as cheap as water" or something like that, but can you point me to the actual executive order or bill he was trying to pass that dealt with this issue of lowering the cost for prescriptions? A source about Biden overturning whatever it was would be great as well. I don't preclude Trump from having actually done something meaningful, but a lot of what he does is vain and self-promoting, so I could easily see this being a case where he tried to put something into effect that looks good on the surface but doesn't actually accomplish anything, or doesn't accomplish it in a sustainable way and thus would need to be revoked to prevent prices going up in the long term.

fny 6y ago
> ...can you point me to the actual executive order or bill he was trying to pass that dealt with this issue of lowering the cost for prescriptions? [0]: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=trump+prescription+executive+order https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=trump+prescription+executive+... [1]: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=biden+trump+prescription+executive+order https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=biden+trump+prescription+exec...
- monkeywork 6y ago
  The condescending nature of using LMGT make me just ignore you.

kmos17 6y ago

I remember him making a lot of noise about making insulin super cheap or giving us the best and cheapest health plan to replace obamacare, he had a full 4 years in office to accomplish this, including two years with complete control of congress. So what exactly did he accomplish?

DanHulton 6y ago

What an incredibly puerile, reductive, and dishonest way to describe a man who ruined countless lives in countless vicious ways. This is such an obviously bad-faith comment. Have more respect for the people you're conversing with, for this site, and for yourself.

dang 6y ago
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of what someone else posted. It just makes this place even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- DanHulton 6y ago
  Fair, apologies.

pfisch 6y ago

I'm sorry, but he didn't. I thought it was a great idea, but issuing a bunch of scattershot EOs that never actually get implemented is not addressing anything. The problem is that in reality he was all sending nasty tweets and no actual substance.

barbacoa 6y ago
Trump's EO on lowering insulin prices never got implemented because biden rescinded it.
- pfisch 6y ago
  Trump waited until 2020 to sign a bunch of fake healthcare EOs that had little chance of being implemented. What was he doing the previous 3 years on healthcare beyond trying to strip all of it away??? He only did this to distract from COVID and even when he wrote the EOs everyone said they were going to get jammed up in the courts forever. I'm not going to play pretend about things trump really truly wanted to do but waited 3.5 years until the middle of a pandemic, and then never implemented.

dang 6y ago

Can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You started out with a good post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24915604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24915604), but since then have been breaking the site guidelines. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.