The suits are asking the court to rule that for Medicare to negotiate drug prices would be unconstitutional. This is what we are up against when trying to reduce health care costs in this country. Drugmaker industry group sues to stop Medicare drug price negotiation | CNN Politics
Hardly surprising. The big question is which side of these lawsuits will all those fiscal conservatives in the Republican Party come down on.
Right-wing media attack Biden’s efforts to lower Medicare prescription costs https://www.mediamatters.org/health...ens-efforts-lower-medicare-prescription-costs
I don't see why you wouldn't want to negotiate prices when you are undoubtedly the largest purchaser.
Matthew Desmond on TikTok Big pharma will always win. Whoever speaks out against them will never achieve enough power to do anything significant. Not sure political party matters. Of course all of this is legal but somewhat shameful.
And it’s negotiation that is being required. The only price mandate being imposed is by the pharmaceutical industry. Like a few other things practiced in America’s version of capitalism, it’s downright shameful. I’m willing to bet, however, that they’ll be able to convince the TEXAS court that they’ll suffer irreparable harm if they have to negotiate.
Conservative SCOTUS have also forced Democrat party leaders to take in hundreds of millions of dollars in donations from big pharma. That damned Kavanaugh broke us.
Yes, both parties take advantage of it since it is now legal, and for the worse of our country. Deflected noted though.
