With inflation high and many Americans concerned about COVID-19, a Democratic congressional candidate in North Carolina says a Republican incumbent isn’t doing enough to ease the burden of medical costs.
State Sen. Ben Clark, D-Hoke, is running in the state’s newly-drawn 9th Congressional District, where he’ll face Republican U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson if both win their primaries. The district, which leans Republican, is located in south-central North Carolina near Fayetteville.
On April 1, Clark’s campaign emailed supporters slamming Hudson for how he voted the day before. The email said: "Yesterday, the House voted to cap insulin prices to $35/month, just $420 each year! Richard Hudson voted NO."
Clark’s campaign also tweeted about Hudson, posting that he "voted no to lowering the cost of insulin for every family in the 9th Congressional District."
What legislation was Clark talking about? And did Hudson really vote against lowering insulin costs? A review of the record shows Clark got this wrong.
The U.S. House of Representatives on March 31 voted on H.R.6833, known as the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which would cap insulin co-payments for insured Americans at $35 a month.It would help some Americans save hundreds of dollars annually and offer all insured patients more predictable insulin costs, but wouldn’t help the uninsured, the Associated Press reported.
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