they have on everything. the rent or the mortgage, the cost of maintaining the car, the food, everything. so if portions of that go up, one of the ways to deal with inflation for families is bring the other costs down. for example, 200,000 people, type i diabetes, paying up to$,000 ,000to $1,000 a month for insulin. we can make sure they pay no more than $35 a month. by the way, drug companies still do well. it takes 10 bucks to develop the insulin. medicare will have the power to negotiate, just like the ve veterans administration does. bring down the cost of prescription drugs. it is a gigantic way it really does, it affects the total amount of money you have
moving in a way that a lot of other americans have already started to do that. yeah. it s just like the booster, mika. if you re 60 or over, if you have immune issues. i have a son with type i diabetes, and he s already eligible and i think he s already gotten the booster. as willie said, we re learning so many things. one of the things we re learning, and you can see it in the numbers now for people who are vaccinated, for people who have been boosted, boy, it really lowers the possibility of you being hospitalized, of you having serious impacts from covid. so it is, as dr. fauci said, that we re getting to a far more manageable time for this entire process. so people make their own choices but, hopefully, they ll look at
fight with lyndon johnson over medicare and the words he used was that it would compel all americans to spend their sunset years telling their children and their children s children how it was when men were free, and that is what it is like. and however, medicare has been sustained and approved, but the public sentiment lay ahead. one thing we have not gotten and what the president has been trying to do today which as you say is to make a clear understanding of what this bill is about. because lincoln said with public sentiment nothing can fail and without it nothing can succeed. so without it, he who encourages it, will continue. and so that is the battle of the louise ads with president clinton, and so that is the side that americans have to come down on. thank you, doris kearns goodwin. just a little past the hour, and the supreme court has upheld the sweeping health care reform law proposed by president obama. i m candy crowley. in a 5-4 decision, the court upheld the i
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