Drug discount program is exploiting poor patients while corporate giants profit • Minnesota Reformer

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Drug discount program is exploiting poor patients while corporate giants profit • Minnesota Reformer

People on Medicare spent $3.4 billion out of pocket last year on the 10 drugs selected Tuesday for Medicare price negotiations. Photo via iStock/Getty Images Plus. Minnesotans, with their long-valued sense of fairness and decency, would never suggest that Fortune 500 corporations should boost their already-healthy revenues at the expense of our fellow citizens who are economically hurting and who have serious health care needs. And, yet, there i…