19 Democratic senators want Trump to go after rising drug prices

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19 Democratic senators want Trump to go after rising drug prices

By Caroline Humer, Reuters - Dec 20 2016

NEW YORK (Reuters)

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In a letter dated Tuesday, the 19 senators named five areas for cooperation: allowing the Medicare program to negotiate prescription prices, increasing transparency, stopping abusive pricing, passing reform on incentives for innovation and supporting generic competition for branded drugs.

Trump's focus during the presidential election campaign was not on drug prices but on his promise to "repeal and replace" Obamacare, President Barack Obama's signature health reform law passed by Democrats in 2010.

But he did talk about allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, which is currently prohibited by law, and importing cheaper drugs from other countries. Since elected, Trump promised in an interview with Time magazine that "I'm going to bring down drug prices" but did not say how.

In the letter led by Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Al Franken of Minnesota and co-signed by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren among others, the group suggested that there would be opportunities in Congress for Trump to steer bipartisan reform...


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http://www.businessinsider.com/r-democrats-seek-trumps-cooperation-on-drug-price-reform-2016-12

[pbmus]

1. You could credibly say our drug costs are out of control

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[Sunlei]

5. I see even Canadians have price gouging now. couple of those meds cost pennies a dose.

[Vinca]

2. Yesterday I heard about a drug that is $4 over-the-counter in the UK and $800 here by Rx.

It's obscene.

[smirkymonkey]

3. Yeah, that'll happen.

Trump doesn't give a shit about anybody but himself. The sooner we get that through, the better. We need to know what we are dealing with here.

[Sunlei]

4. Republicans will never allow their trump to see that. Republicans allow the high drug prices.

[Xipe Totec]

6. I would be very happy if he went away after drug prices rose nt

[bluedigger]

7. Where are the rest of them?