Medicare is negotiating for more affordable pharmaceutical drugs.
Insulin costs are capped at $35 per month for almost four million diabetic seniors on Medicare.
These are just a few consequential health care accomplishments in a long and growing list, which includes:
The administration paused a series of plans for gas projects environmental groups have dubbed carbon "mega bombs". This is in addition to the formation of the American Climate Corps and provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that invests about $385 billion in energy and climate change incentives that include tax credits for solar and wind energy equipment production and electric vehicles purchases. With historic$385 billion investments in tax credits for domestic clean energy production to combat climate change devastation, we are creating up to nine million new good-paying jobs and reducing carbon emissions 40% by 2030.
Urban parks and resilience for tribal communities will see significant funding, including $60 billion in new resources for environmental justice communities' legacy pollution clean-up efforts, and rural communities will be able to take advantage of lower cost and cleaner energy sources.
The new greenhouse gas reduction fund will provide low-cost financing for clean energy projects, with at least 60% of the benefits of these investments flowing to disadvantaged communities.
For consumers, this means additional tax credits that encourage purchases of energy efficient homes, vehicles, and appliances, reducing energy costs and utility bills.
The IRA also requires companies that report more than $1 billion in profits to pay a 15% minimum corporate tax rate, and wealthy shareholders pay a 1% tax on stock buybacks.
The Biden administration has forgiven $180 billion in student loan interest debt, reunited more than 600 children separated from their families at the Southern border during the Trump administration, and the "Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America (CHIPS) and Science Act.
Democrats passed and President Biden signed into law the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act, a bill designed to expand health care and disability benefits for veterans exposed to toxic chemicals and burn pits.
They accomplished the most significant piece of gun safety legislation in 20 years with the "the Safer Communities Act".
Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, codifying into federal law the right to same-sex and interracial marriages anywhere in the country, regardless of where the marriages were performed.
All federal employees and federal contractors must be paid at least $15 per-hour minimum wage.
Biden r eplacing the nation's lead pipe infrastructure.
He appointed the first black woman to the Supreme Court.
Let's not ignore the fact that, due to the prior administration's negligence and malice, we unnecessarily lost over half a million of our fellow Americans to a plague, and it was the nascent Biden administration that prioritized the vaccine that returned us to a semblance of normalcy.
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