Trump claims credit for Biden’s insulin price cap

Former
President

Donald
Trump
on
Saturday
recognized
that
the
price
of

insulin
is
lower
under

President
Joe
Biden,
but
he
still
wants
voters
to
credit
his
own
administration.

“Low
INSULIN
PRICING
was
gotten
for
millions
of
Americans
by
me,
and
the
Trump
Administration,
not
by
Crooked
Joe
Biden.
He
had
NOTHING
to
do
with
it,”
Trump
wrote
in
a

Truth
Social
post.
“It
was
all
done
long
before
he
so
sadly
entered
office.
All
he
does
is
try
to
take
credit
for
things
done
by
others,
in
this
case,
ME!”

The
comment
comes
as
Trump
lags
Biden
on
the
issue
of
health
care,
a
top
voter
priority
as
the
November
election
nears.

For
example,
a
May
survey
from

KFF,
a
nonpartisan
health
policy
research
group,
found
Biden
with
an
11-point
lead
over
Trump
on
the
question
of
ensuring
access
to
affordable
health
insurance.

Biden
led
on
several
other
health-care-related
topics
in
the
poll,
though
the
candidates
were
relatively
split
on
addressing
high
health-care
costs.
The
poll
surveyed
1,479
U.S.
adults
from
April
23
to
May
1
and
the
margin
of
error
is
+/-
3
percentage
points.

The
two
candidates
are
expected
to
have
their
first
face-to-face

presidential
debate
on
June
27.

Insulin
price
caps
have
become
a
central
piece
of
evidence
for
Biden’s
broader
economic
argument
on
the
campaign
trail
against
Trump.

Under
the

Inflation
Reduction
Act,
Biden
issued
a
host
of
provisions
aimed
at
bringing
down
the
price
of
medicine
for
seniors,
including
capping
the
price
of
insulin
at
$35
per
month
for
Medicare
recipients.
The
president
has
continued
to
push
for
a
more
universal
insulin
cap
that
would
cover
younger
people
as
well.

“Instead
of
paying
$400
a
month
for
insulin,
seniors
with
diabetes
only
have
to
pay
$35
a
month!”
Biden
said
at
his

State
of
the
Union
address
in
March.
“And
now
I
want
to
cap
the
cost
of
insulin
at
$35
a
month
for
every
American
who
needs
it!”

The
Democratic
incumbent
is
trying
to
use
lower
insulin
costs
as
proof
that
he
has
helped
lower
consumer
costs
despite
the
stubbornly
high
levels
of
inflation
that
have
loomed
over
the
U.S.
economy’s
post-pandemic
recovery.

For
Trump’s
part,
the
former
president
signed
an

executive
order
in
the
last
year
of
his
administration
to
issue
his
own

$35
price
cap
on
insulin.
Biden
later
paused
that
policy
when
he
took
office
as
part
of
a
larger
freeze
to
allow
his
administration
to
review
new
regulations
set
to
go
into
effect.

But
the
memory
of
Trump-era
health-care
policies
has
still
dimmed
some
voters’
views
on
the
track
record
of
the
presumptive
GOP
presidential
nominee.
A

CNBC
All-America
Economic
survey
issued
in
December
found
that
Biden
was
ahead
by
19
points
against
Trump
on
health
care.

Trump
unsuccessfully
spent
most
of
his
presidential
term
trying
to
repeal
the
Obama-era

Affordable
Care
Act
without
offering
a
viable
alternative
health-care
option.
The
ACA
provides
roughly
45
million
Americans
wit
health
insurance,
according
to
a
March
estimate
from
the

White
House.

Trump
has
doubled
down
on
the
promise
to
replace
Obamacare
on
the
2024
campaign
trail,
though
he
has
still
not
outlined
what
that
replacement
would
look
like.

“I’m
not
running
to
terminate
the
ACA
as
Crooked
Joe
Biden
says
all
over
the
place,”
Trump
said
in
a
video
posted
to
his

Truth
Social
account
in
April.
“We’re
going
to
make
the
ACA
much
better
than
it
is
right
now
and
much
less
expensive
for
you.”