I just wish they would do more to reduce the actual price, not just hide the price in our taxes. Insulin is so old its out of patent and it costs a few dollars to produce a vial.

The orders signed Friday afternoon included allowing certain drugs to be imported from Canada and making
changes to the way discounts negotiated by middlemen called pharmacy benefit managers are passed on to
Medicare patients.

The most radical order involves requiring Medicare to pay the same price for some drugs — the ones patients
receive in the hospital as part of Medicare Part B — that other countries pay. However, Trump said he is giving
the pharmaceutical industry until Aug. 24 to make a deal with him before he implements it.

You didn't read the Executive Order, did you?

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/24/895290378/trump-signs-executive-orders-on-drug-prices

Nothing is being "hidden" now.  In fact, the exact opposite is true.  No longer are drug prices obscured.  What they pay is what patients pay, not some accounting aggregate of inflated ancillary costs bundled with drug prices.

We aren't subsidizing high prices for Medicare.  The costs of drugs are bring reduced.

Period.

I see, well in that case, great job! Hopefully we will see an improvement across the board, not just medicare.

This should be news headline shiit in Hawaii, I would assume, where diabetes is widespread.

Good News Inspector.
Hope and the wife are doing well in your abode. Sounds like you are though.

Wow!  That's great news!  That's quite a positive impact!

How is she doing overall?  Hope she's recovering nicely, or at least as best as possible. 

My sister has been on insulin since she was little.  Not sure what her co-pays are like as I believe she's been on private insurance all her life.  Still overall good news for millions of Americans.

Glad you just demonstrated that you have no problem posting your "informed" opinion, and then are able to retract it after your opinion is proven to be based on ignorance, lies and made up BS.

You should do some serious reflecting on how wrong you were on this issue, and perhaps question whether the "facts" you based other opinions were just as wrong.

This is very awesome and important news.  Of course the mainstream media is totally ignoring it..

I am glad you are so easily amazed that someone will correct their statements when they get more information.

If you paid attention to my comment though, you will see never once did I mention medicare for starters. Furthermore I referenced the the low cost of insulin production vs the high cost people are charged for it. How about you be a little less short sighted and realize maybe I wasn't just talking about medicare but insulin prices as a whole. A drop in the price to medicare plan holders doesn't mean a drop for everyone. Don't get me wrong, if Trump brought around savings to both medicare members as well as the government (and therefore the taxpayers) than that is great but that doesn't solve the problem of insulin price for everyone not on medicare. But I guess you can't be bothered by those little details because then you wouldn't get to start flame wars on the internet. You would rather be dishonest and bicker, we all know that is your MO.

The lower prices are not going to be limited to Medicare beneficiaries.  That's just the standard they are using to start the process.  Once again, do some REAL research, and stop posting uninformed opinions.

Everyone will be benefiting from the lower prices.  Trump can only affect the programs under his control.  It'll take the PEOPLE forcing CONGRESS to adopt similar standards for everyone to benefit.

Trump can only do so much without Congress.

Did a quick google search and plenty of mainstream media has articles about it. CNN, Washington Post, etc.

Thanks Hound for asking. We are doing well in the new digs. The wife is busy decorating and buying shit we don’t need. We have a nice looking place tho. So I guess it’s okay. 😂

Thanks for asking. She is doing better. She lost 70 pounds of water weight and has gained a little back but she is fighting it. They keep adjusting her drugs to keep the water off. We are planning on doing some traveling after lockdowns are over.

When I had my wife on private insurance her copays were $25 & $35. And she was on another drug that the copay was $65. But the nice thing with private insurance was we could get a 90 day supply with the one copay. And you could get prescriptions by mail and in some cases they waived the copay.  Medicare the copay is per month so it doesn’t help you to order 90 days ahead.

Well, you better add a nice gun closet to your "list".   
That's good to hear!  Excellent to hear that you folks are making plans to travel.  Enjoy the retired life!  Can I start calling ya "granpaw"?   

This is very awesome and important news.  Of course the mainstream media is totally ignoring it..

Got a couple more incoming so I am going to have to start making room for a another safe!

Well, since you are a young whipper snapper I guess you can call me “Granpaw”.