From a morning Washington Post story about efforts to remove a law preventing the federal government from negotiating with drug companies over the cost of drugs it buys for Medicaid, Medicare, the VA and other programs. Yes, they are the largest consumers of those drugs, but are forbidden from seeking discount prices!
There is..." all-out lobbying campaign from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the drug industry’s powerful trade group, to ensure nothing like the House proposal makes it into the reconciliation bill. PhRMA shelled out more than $22.4 million lobbying on drug pricing and other issues in the first nine months of the year, according to recent disclosure filings. And it has run TV ads warning the proposal will mean that “politicians … decide which medicines you can and can’t get.”Please GOP....comment here and justify your opposition to allowing the negotiating????
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