“He wants to add dental, vision, and hearing coverage to traditional Medicare — and reduce what seniors pay for prescription drugs by allowing the government to negotiate prices with Big Pharma.”
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Independently verified. This is a compound promise with two distinct components. (1) Drug-price negotiation: FULLY delivered — Biden championed and signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which requires HHS to negotiate Medicare drug prices; negotiated prices for the first 10 Part D drugs (Eliquis, Jardiance, Xarelto, Januvia, Farxiga, Entresto, Enbrel, Imbruvica, Stelara, Fiasp) took effect January 1, 2026 (confirmed by KFF, CMS, Medicare Rights Center, Pharmacy Times). (2) Dental/vision/hearing expansion of traditional Medicare: NEVER became law — proposed in Build Back Better, narrowed to hearing-only in the House version with dental/vision cut (ADA opposed dental), then BBB collapsed in the Senate and the final IRA contained no DVH benefit; traditional Medicare still excludes dental, hearing, and vision in 2026 (confirmed by KFF, NCOA, Medicare Rights Center). One major component fully kept + one component attempted-but-failed = PARTIAL. Adversarial fairness check: CHAMPIONED would over-credit a promise where half died in Congress; ATTEMPTED would under-credit a component that is now law and in effect. PARTIAL is the party-neutral midpoint and would apply identically to a politician of the opposite party with this record. Sources verified: both KFF pages fetched live with matching quotes; CMS newsroom fact sheet is a real primary page (returned 403 to automated fetch, bot-blocking not a dead link) and its Jan 1 2026 effective date is corroborated across multiple independent outlets.
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