• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    also with him getting rid of Medicare part D, the actual headline will probably soon be “Trump increases drug prices by 600%”

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      16 hours ago

      Oh sorry, what he meant is his son"s company is getting this discount so he doesn’t shake their industry down and he will sell it to regular Americans at full price on Trumprx.

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    2 days ago

    That people now get paid to take drugs, receiving 5x the money they used to pay for those drugs before, is surely proof that America is great again.

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    2 days ago

    US President requires remedial maths class. Is there no end to the shame he brings?

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    2 days ago

    600% exists. For example:

    $50 item…

    Let’s take 10% off…50x0.1=5…50-5=45, so $45.00.
    Let’s take 600% off…50x6=300…50-300=-250, so -$250.

    So I gotta go shopping soon for these things.

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        Let’s take 10% off…50*0.1=5…50-5=45, so $45.00.
        Let’s take 600% off…50*6=300…50-300=-250, so -$250.

        I was wondering why it didn’t make sense, thanks. The inconsistent decimals and use of ellipses to separate ideas probably doesn’t help either, though.

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      2 days ago

      yeah but you’re using the wrong way to calculate percentage. Not the same one Trump uses.

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    2 days ago

    I wonder if all the scumbags getting their grift on behind Trump just straight up lie to him to get him to get soundbytes for fox news or something.

    There is literally no universe whatsoever where Trump actually cares about fucking over senior citizens making their drugs more expensive which is apparently what’s happening now and almost guaranteed to be the reason why he made this claim. He wouldn’t care about it if it doesn’t make him any money, that’s literally all he cares about. I feel like there’s a really really good chance the fucking assholes doing that just told Trump “we cut prices by 600%” so his dumb ass can just say it and make it “reality” for the base.

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      medicaid payments were stopped by trump last week to ONLY BLUe states, because he is so vindictive they dint support him last election. and it dropped off msms and reddit and it wasnt metnioned since then. im hearing from my state they are starting to put restrictions for medicaid because of the payment being stalled.

      or before that schumer/gop ended the shutdown last year and kick tons of people off of the super-supsidized aca plans.

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        Don’t forget the work requirements for Medicaid they’re doing federally. Oz (yes that Dr Oz) wants to make them totally universal for anyone on Medicaid - gotta work at least 80 hrs a month to stay on. Terminally ill? Disabled to the point you physically can’t work? Too bad, do it or die.

        The fascists figured out if you’re actively killing the “useless eaters”, people get mad about it. If you just allow them to die through neglect and systemic failure, they’re more OK with it.

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          Dr oz always wanted medicaid to be gone so they can have more tax cuts, this is a way to degrade it. i know someone that is on medicad but isnt working right now, he is inf or a rude awakening. i make too much for it, and i had to buy insurance with subsidies, dental isnt covered.

          republicans will be whining when they get of medicaid, lol. they will get around to medi-care eventually thats where all the older 55+ are. COL is pretty much super skewed in red states, because the lcol, it makes republicans look like they arnt “poor” in those areas.