Thirty-four minutes: That’s how long it took for Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden to appear side-by-side during a meeting in Maryland next to Washington, Thursday, August 15, including speeches. The 81-year-old has given up wearing Democratic colors in opposition to President Donald Trump. The atmosphere was upbeat as Joe Biden gave the impression that he had never been more popular since being ousted by his party mates.
Presented by Kamala Harris “An Extraordinary Man”Joe Biden said of his vice president: “He would make a hell of a president.” » In short, a compromise, or in any case an understanding, between the Democrats, during an event organized around an “easy” issue for the Democrats, the price ceiling for drugs through Medicare, the federal health insurance for the elderly.
Due to lobbying by drug companies, Medicare had no right to negotiate drug prices and had to purchase drugs at list prices for their policyholders. It’s a thing of the past since a law was passed early in Joe Biden’s term and the Senate thanks the vice president’s decisive vote, while all Republican senators voted against it.
“It’s Time to Defeat ‘Big Pharma'”
That’s even more concrete since the White House announced a list of the drugs involved this morning. For 23,000 to nearly four million seniors, the cost of ten medicines that treat diabetes, leukemia, arthritis and tension will be halved from two to four from 2026. “Now is the time to defeat Big Pharma. It’s a fight we must continue.”Mr. Trump condemned the $400 million drug groups spent on lobbying in 2023. Biden insisted.
Mme Only Harris, who introduced the president and never made an actual speech, could give the nod. But he was careful not to talk about other aspects of his economic policy, reserving his announcements for one of his own meetings in North Carolina on Friday, August 16. “Thanks Joe”When the president joked about his age, the crowd chanted: “I have served in the Senate for two hundred and seventy years”Mr. Biden joked that he was criticized during his first run for the Senate “too small” Considered now at 29 years of age “too old”. Actually, Mr. Biden still thinks he could have won The New York TimesHe hasn’t spoken to Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the House of Representatives and de facto boss of the Democratic Party, since she ousted him in July.
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