Post by trueblue on Aug 20, 2022 16:25:38 GMT
'Joe Manchin swipes at Kyrsten Sinema, arguing she 'made us wait two years' to pass prescription drug reform'
Sen. Joe Manchin chided Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Friday, blaming his colleague for holding up Democrats' plans to reform prescription drug pricing.
Democrats are hot off a key victory, with President Joe Biden having signed the Inflation Reduction Act on Tuesday. The sweeping spending package revived some of the White House's goals for clean-energy projects, healthcare reform, and tax overhauls. Yet one of the senators key to passing the package is still lamenting some of the measures that didn't make the final cut.
In a roundtable discussion, Manchin noted that the $35 cap on insulin for private insurance was tossed out by Republicans.
"Then we had a senator from Arizona who basically didn't let us go as far as we needed to go with our negotiations and made us wait two years," Manchin said. "Those type of things … I don't question anybody. Everyone's responding to their own constituent base. But we did get something."
Democrats are hot off a key victory, with President Joe Biden having signed the Inflation Reduction Act on Tuesday. The sweeping spending package revived some of the White House's goals for clean-energy projects, healthcare reform, and tax overhauls. Yet one of the senators key to passing the package is still lamenting some of the measures that didn't make the final cut.
In a roundtable discussion, Manchin noted that the $35 cap on insulin for private insurance was tossed out by Republicans.
"Then we had a senator from Arizona who basically didn't let us go as far as we needed to go with our negotiations and made us wait two years," Manchin said. "Those type of things … I don't question anybody. Everyone's responding to their own constituent base. But we did get something."