Democrats Reintroduce Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Legislation

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), along with Reps. Marion Berry (D-Ark.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), on Tuesday reintroduced legislation that would require the federal government to negotiate prices directly with pharmaceutical companies for medications under the Medicare prescription drug benefit, CongressDaily reports. The bill would allow Medicare to establish a formulary that would give [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on October 25th, 2007