Tenney Press Tour Of Lies Continues As She Bashes Lower Drug Costs Now Act
In December, we asked Claudia Tenney if she’d join her former colleagues in support of bipartisan efforts to lower the cost of prescription drugs. Since then, it’s become abundantly clear that she absolutely would not.
Last week, Tenney, who has never met a special interest or corporate campaign piggy-bank she didn’t like, yet again bashed a House-approved bipartisan bill that allows Medicare to negotiate with drug companies to lower prescription drug prices and reverses unjustified price gouging on thousands of medications like insulin. Tenney falsely claims the Lower Drug Costs Now Act would “only raise the cost of prescription drugs.”
The truth: the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Lower Drug Costs Now Act would actually reduce drug prices by 55 percent. The bill would also cap Seniors’ out-of-pocket costs at $2000 a year, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimated that the bill would cut health care spending by $480 billion, leading to $158 billion in savings for American households.
These latest comments come after the failed former Congresswoman called the Lower Drug Costs Now Act a “terrible bill.”
Facts matter.
“Claudia Tenney is on a press tour repeatedly lying to Upstate New Yorkers about the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, parroting talking points from the special interests opposed to the bill who are funding her re-election efforts,” said DCCC Spokesperson Christine Bennett. “Time and again, voters say that lowering the cost of prescription drugs is a top priority and support bipartisan efforts to do so, but for Claudia Tenney, filling her campaign coffers is more important.”
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