“What I'm going to do is pass Obamacare with a public option — become Bidencare. I'm going to reduce drug prices by making sure that there's competition that doesn't exist now by allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices with the insurance companies.”
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Independently re-verified. This is a compound promise with two distinct commitments, and the record splits cleanly. (1) Drug prices via Medicare negotiation: FULLY delivered — Biden championed and signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which for the first time authorizes Medicare to directly negotiate certain drug prices; negotiated prices for the first 10 Part D drugs took effect January 1, 2026 (KFF, CMS confirm). (2) Public option / 'Bidencare': effectively abandoned — none of the enacted 2021-22 bills (ARP, IRA) contained a public option, standalone bills stalled, and Biden dropped the phrase after December 2020 (KFF Health News, PolitiFact). Keeping one major component while dropping the other is a textbook PARTIAL (+0.5). Adversarial fairness check: this label would apply identically to an opposite-party official who delivered one half of a compound pledge and abandoned the other; not CHAMPIONED (the public-option half was never led), not ATTEMPTED (the drug-price half fully landed as law). Sources are real, live, and on point (the KFF key-facts page returns the cited quote verbatim; the CMS newsroom HTML blocks automated fetch with a 403 but the same fact sheet is confirmed live as a CMS PDF). Rating stands.
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