The underlying bill is one of House Democrats’ top priorities as they seek to show they are addressing kitchen table issues at the same time as impeachment. Lowering drug prices was a major Democratic campaign promise in 2018.Senator Tester might have something to say.
The measure allows the government to negotiate lower drug prices, with the lower prices applied to people with private insurance as well as those on Medicare.
The Congressional Budget Office found the negotiation provisions would save $456 billion over 10 years.
The bill is expected to die in the Senate, though, where Republicans have denounced the measure as “socialist” and warned it would hinder the development of new drugs.
The 45 billion/yr in extra drug prices we pay comes right off of Sen Tester's earmarks for nurse training in Montana. There are about six- eight states that pay the highest price in earmark reductions on this, that is about 15 senators who are quite clueless because no single senator i slooking realistically at drug prices. The same senators were helpless in voting down Obamacare, and they are stuck with it.
The first priority needs to be, make it work at least. Their philosophies do not reflect the realities of small rural states getting swamped by mis-management of national programs.
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