AFP fart-check, misleads about Medicare. While smaller than Biden's massive Inflation-o-matic bill lowered insulin prices by royal decree, threat, and tax money, he froze Trump's manufacturers-covered and very popular incentivized solution, with lots of access by 2023

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Details:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210202030125/https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/president-trump-announces-lower-out-pocket-insulin-costs-medicares-seniors

more details

https://web.archive.org/web/20230209044701/https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/part-d-savings-model

The law doc of the particular addendum specifics:

No AFP, it was already implemented when Biden "froze" it and had been going for a year and a half at least.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210203054137/https://innovation.cms.gov/media/document/partd-senior-sav-cy22-mnfr-rfaadd

Good amount of covered insulins for 2023

https://innovation.cms.gov/media/document/partd-seniorsav-ndclist-2023

Got...had :( ... all the big names on board for 2023:

The following pharmaceutical manufacturers are participating in the Model for CY 2023:

  • Eli Lilly and Company
  • MannKind Corporation
  • Mylan Specialty L.P., a Viatris Company
  • Novo Nordisk, Inc. and Novo Nordisk Pharma, Inc.
  • Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC

The participating plans list is a HUGE Excel Spreadsheet:

XLS https://web.archive.org/web/20221029151329/https://innovation.cms.gov/media/document/pdss-model-2023-landscape-file