vaspider:

kandoros:

voltaspistol:

They didn’t introduce a bill to just repeal the $35 cap on insulin.

They introduced a bill to repeal the entire Inflation Reduction Act.

Which, among other things, means they want to get rid of:

• the $35 insulin cap.
• And a yearly cap of $2,000 for medications in Medicare Part D.
• And allowing Medicare to negotiate for drug prices.
• And requiring pharma companies to issue refunds to Medicare if the costs of their drugs rises faster than inflation
• And an elimination of copays in Medicare Part D for vaccines like tetanus and rabies
• And an expansion of eligibility for low-income subsidies for Medicare

Saying they want to eliminate just the insulin cap is understating their desire to fuck people over.

Okay. This post keeps going around, so I’m going to repeat what I said the last time:

Yes, this would be bad. However, this is almost certainly a showboating bill. GovTracker, whose methodology you can read about under the ‘About’ section on their website, says this bill has approximately a 0% chance of being enacted.

Added 1/23/25: Since the last time I saw this post, they also added that they estimate it only has a 1% chance of even getting out of committee.

To repeal the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. (H.R. 191)

There’s nothing wrong with, if your representative sits on one of the five different committees that this bill has been referred to, sending a message via ResistBot, calling, or shooting off an email, but I really am begging people not to get caught up in the legislative Gish Gallop that Republicans are going to subject everybody to. They are trying to wear you out. They are going to be throwing absolutely everything they can at the wall to see what sticks, and they are going to throw as many things as they can in the hopes that something slips through or that they tire everybody out.

Almost all of the bill’s cosponsors have only been in Congress since 2023; none of them has been around longer than 2017, and I had never heard of most of them. That’s not to say that people who I haven’t heard of or people who haven’t been in Congress very long can’t accomplish things, but these are not people with a lot of institutional knowledge or cachet. As far as I can tell right now, they don’t sit on any committees, either.

Added 1/23/25: Y’all. Come on, y’all.

This bill is literally just a title.

This bill has no fucking text.

You are freaking out about a literal headline with no article. There is no there there. This is a literal Nothing Bill. Come on.

You know how we say “read more than the headline”? Y’all really are gonna have to go further than that these days. The disinformation machine is gearing up, and it is here scare you and wear you down.

Do not run off after every stick Republicans throw. They are trying to wear you out. Expend your energy judiciously, and give shit like this the exact amount of energy it deserves.

None.