Donald Trump has brashly claimed absolute credit for current lower insulin prices even though it was President Biden who signed a law including a drug price cap that reduced consumer costs.
After Trump's claim, the Biden campaign called out the "desperate and delusional" Trump on his "blatant lie."
"Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it," Trump claimed on Truth Social Saturday.
Ironically, he added: "All he does is try to take credit for things done by others."
Under the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden included several provisions aimed at bringing down the price of medicine for seniors, including capping the price of insulin at $35 per month for the 4 million Medicare recipients who need the drug.
Biden is also pushing for an insulin cap that would cover younger people as well.
"Instead of paying $400 a month for insulin, seniors with diabetes only have to pay $35 a month," Biden said at his State of the Union address in March. "Now I want to cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month for every American who needs it."
Trump did issue an executive order in his last six months in office requiring federal health centers to "pass on" discounts to consumers they received from pharmaceutical manufacturers for insulin and Epipens used for asthma and allergic reactions.
It's not clear what percentage of any discounts were ulitmately passed on, if the passalongs were monitored by federal officials, or how much they reduced the cost of the pricey drugs.
Health plans were also encouraged to "voluntarily" increase their drug price coverage during Trump's last year in office.
Health care is a weak spot for Trump among voters, surveys have found. When he was in the White House he battled in vain to scuttle Obamare Care, which is now used by 45 million Americans. He promised to replace it with a better plan which he has yet to reveal.
He has also suggested looking to shave Social Security and Medicaid benefits to help address nation's debt, which soared druing the Trump administration with his tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy he implemented as president, and hopes to renew if he makes it to the White House again.
A May survey by the nonpartisan health policy research group KFF found that Biden held an 11-point lead over Trump with voters on the question of ensuring access to affordable health insurance.
A CNBC All-America Economic survey in December found that Biden was ahead by 19 points over Trump on health care.
