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Why Letting Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices Won’t Be The Game-Changer For Health Care Democrats Hope It Will Be

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Democrats hope their new health care, tax and climate law begins to rein in soaring prescription drug prices. Each person spends more than US$1,100 a year on drugs, up from $831 in 2013. Americans shell out, on average, $98.70 for a vial of insulin, compared with $6.94 Australians.

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Letting Medicare negotiate drug prices won’t be a game-changer

Fortunately, there are several other provisions in the new health care, tax and climate...

2 years ago·Houston, United States

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Why Letting Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices Won’t Be The Game-Changer For Health Care Democrats Hope It Will Be

Democrats hope their new health care, tax, and climate law begins to rein in soaring prescription drug prices. One of its most touted provisions allows Medicare, America’s health insurance program for seniors, to negotiate some prescription drug prices for the first time, with some calling it “game-changing” and a significant victory over the pharmaceutical industry. Drug manufacturers had stubbornly opposed any governmental regulation of drug p…

2 years ago

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