President Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders join forces to promote lower health care costs
A live TV news station covering breaking news and traffic for Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and Southern Colorado with a strong investigative team President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders have joined forces to promote lower health care costs through their efforts to reduce the cost of inhalers and other health care needs. Both men highlighted the lower costs through the Democrats' climate, health care and tax package signed into law in 2022. The bill caps various health care care costs for Medicare recipients, including $35 a month for insulin and $2,000 a year for prescription drugs. Biden and Sanders were rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
Published : a month ago by in Politics Health
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has teamed up with Sen. Bernie Sanders to promote his administration’s efforts to lower the cost of inhalers and other health care needs. Both men on Wednesday touted the lower health care costs that have come through the Democrats’ sweeping climate, health care and tax package that Biden signed into law in 2022. It caps various health care costs for those on Medicare, including $35 a month for insulin and $2,000 a year for prescription drugs. Sanders, a Vermont independent, and Biden were rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Biden told Sanders at the White House event: “Bernie, you and I have been fighting this for 25 years. Finally, finally, we beat Big Pharma. Finally.”