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On the Fox News Sunday, Trump\u2019s Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said that the White House wants to run in 2020 on health care — and based on his Sunday show appearance, it looks like they plan to do that by continuing to lie to the American people.<\/p>\n

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LIE: \u201cKeep in mind, we don\u2019t get nearly enough attention, I don\u2019t think, for what we\u2019ve done with drug prices.\u201d<\/p>\n

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REALITY: Drug prices continue to skyrocket, and Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn the ACA would make them increase even more.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cPrices continue to rise. Administration policies announced last year and currently being completed don\u2019t seem to have shifted that trend. Figures on U.S. prescription drug price changes compiled by health data company Elsevier show that from Dec. 20 through Jan. 2, there were 1,179 product price changes. Of those, 30 were price cuts and the remaining 1,149 were price increases, with 328 of them between 9 percent and 10 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Roll Call<\/a>: \u201cBy backing the wholesale repeal of the 2010 health care law, President Donald Trump could unravel his own plan on prescription drug prices and undermine his messaging on an important issue ahead of the 2020 election: the climbing cost of medicines.\u201d<\/p>\n

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LIE: \u201cWe talk about how we are protecting Medicare.\u201d<\/p>\n

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REALITY: Trump\u2019s budget would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare.<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: “Trump for the first time calls for cutting $845 billion from Medicare, the popular health care program for the elderly that in the past he had largely said he would protect.”<\/p>\n

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\u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af: \u201cI do think you\u2019ll see a plan here fairly shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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REALITY: The White House does not have a plan, and congressional Republicans don\u2019t want to write one.<\/p>\n

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Politico<\/a>: \u201cPresident Donald Trump promised a new plan to replace Obamacare. But the four Senate Republicans he tapped for the job aren\u2019t jumping at the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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CNN<\/a>: \u201cUnhappy with the President’s decision to plunge the party back into a battle it lost less than two years ago, Republicans said they would await guidance from the White House. Trump, in turn, said he would ask GOP senators to craft a plan — leaving the White House and Congress pointing fingers at each other over who should take the lead in writing health care policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On the Fox News Sunday, Trump\u2019s Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said that the White House wants to run in 2020 on health care — and based on his Sunday show appearance, it looks like they plan to do that by continuing to lie to the American people.   LIE: \u201cKeep in mind, we don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMulvaney Lies Again: Trump Hasn\u2019t Lowered Drug Prices And Won\u2019t Protect Medicare - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/mulvaney-lies-again-trump-hasnt-lowered-drug-prices-and-wont-protect-medicare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-04-08T14:05:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:04:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/mulvaney-lies-again-trump-hasnt-lowered-drug-prices-and-wont-protect-medicare\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/mulvaney-lies-again-trump-hasnt-lowered-drug-prices-and-wont-protect-medicare\/\",\"name\":\"Mulvaney Lies Again: Trump Hasn\u2019t Lowered Drug Prices And Won\u2019t Protect Medicare - 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