#I rotated at an FQHC

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This is really misleading

Trump’s proposed policy affects federally qualified health centers, which are often severely underfunded and already doing their best to provide medication for free to anyone who can’t afford it. They also have access to a federal discount program that allows them to get medications as cheap as $0.01. This has historically been a way for the health centers to augment their budgets because they can bill the insurance and get reimbursed at a higher rate. I imagine if you have cash pay patients who can afford $20 a month for insulin that would also help to offset the patients who really cannot pay anything for their more expensive medications.

Essentially what Trump did was he looked at places that already serve the very poor and try to provide free or deeply discounted medication to people who need it, and he said “hey, if you don’t do that 100% of the time with these two medications, I’ll take away your funding.”

And then he turned around to the public and said “look what a great job I’m doing addressing insulin and epi-pen prices”

I’m not an expert on this so I can’t say what the true implications of Trump’s policy would be. But my gut feeling is that anything that threatens to defund critical healthcare access is not really as good as it sounds in the headline.

Media for 4 years: OMG! Trump is literally killing poor people with diabetes!

Biden:

Media: *crickets*

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