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Re:New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phas... by analogdreams on Sunday April 04, 2021 @08:31PM (#26694156)
We had a president that addressed this but people didn't like that he sent 'nasty' tweets. then his successor overturned the order and we all celebrated.
Re:New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phas... by dang on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:38AM (#26695401)
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You started out with a good post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24915604), but since then have been breaking the site guidelines.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Re:New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phas... by kmos17 on Sunday April 04, 2021 @10:00PM (#26694595)
I remember him making a lot of noise about making insulin super cheap or giving us the best and cheapest health plan to replace obamacare, he had a full 4 years in office to accomplish this, including two years with complete control of congress. So what exactly did he accomplish?
Re:New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phas... by pfisch on Sunday April 04, 2021 @10:02PM (#26694604)
I'm sorry, but he didn't.

I thought it was a great idea, but issuing a bunch of scattershot EOs that never actually get implemented is not addressing anything.

The problem is that in reality he was all sending nasty tweets and no actual substance.

Re:New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phas... by barbacoa on Sunday April 04, 2021 @11:40PM (#26695086)
Trump's EO on lowering insulin prices never got implemented because biden rescinded it.
Re:New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phas... by pfisch on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:30AM (#26700340)
Trump waited until 2020 to sign a bunch of fake healthcare EOs that had little chance of being implemented. What was he doing the previous 3 years on healthcare beyond trying to strip all of it away???

He only did this to distract from COVID and even when he wrote the EOs everyone said they were going to get jammed up in the courts forever.

I'm not going to play pretend about things trump really truly wanted to do but waited 3.5 years until the middle of a pandemic, and then never implemented.

Re:New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phas... by actinium226 on Sunday April 04, 2021 @08:49PM (#26694262)
OK, I'm legitimately curious to know more. I do remember him talking about "making insulin as cheap as water" or something like that, but can you point me to the actual executive order or bill he was trying to pass that dealt with this issue of lowering the cost for prescriptions? A source about Biden overturning whatever it was would be great as well.

I don't preclude Trump from having actually done something meaningful, but a lot of what he does is vain and self-promoting, so I could easily see this being a case where he tried to put something into effect that looks good on the surface but doesn't actually accomplish anything, or doesn't accomplish it in a sustainable way and thus would need to be revoked to prevent prices going up in the long term.

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Re:New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phas... by monkeywork on Sunday April 04, 2021 @09:36PM (#26694489)
The condescending nature of using LMGT make me just ignore you.
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Re:New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phas... by dang on Monday April 05, 2021 @01:49AM (#26695717)
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of what someone else posted. It just makes this place even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phas... by DanHulton on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:37AM (#26700427)
Fair, apologies.