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6. Not just taxes. $700 billion in funding comes from the savings that allowing Medicare

Reply to Amishman (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 2, 2021, 07:03 AM

Oct 2021

to negotiate pharma prices generates.

The very thing that Sinema (after receiving shedloads of dosh and adverts from Big Pharma) flipped on and now is against.

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So the current negotiating number is between 1.9 and 2.3tn dollars. [View all] OnDoutside Oct 2021 OP

Has Manchin gone up from 1.5? Do we know for sure where Sinema's number is? PoliticAverse Oct 2021 #1

The taxes to pay for it are key Amishman Oct 2021 #2

Not just taxes. $700 billion in funding comes from the savings that allowing Medicare Celerity Oct 2021 #6

That was the range they quoted from sources on MSNBC. Also Manchin OnDoutside Oct 2021 #4

I would say Sinema's an idiot LastLiberal in PalmSprings Oct 2021 #8

Yeah I see where that range is coming from... PoliticAverse Oct 2021 #9

I was thinking just that MacKasey Oct 2021 #3

If it gives time to get the show on the road and elect two extra OnDoutside Oct 2021 #5

If the Democrats don't pass the bill(s) will they still hold the House after 2022? n/t PoliticAverse Oct 2021 #11

Probably not, but then if they only pass a sham of a Reconciliation bill OnDoutside Oct 2021 #12

The numbers are bs diversion, gab13by13 Oct 2021 #7

Agree MacKasey Oct 2021 #10