Sanders to roll out bill letting Medicare negotiate drug prices

[Donkees]

01/17/17 01:39 PM EST

Excerpt:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday said he will introduce legislation allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices and called on President-elect Donald Trump to support the proposal.

"If Mr. Trump is serious about taking on Pharma, if Mr. Trump is serious about having Medicare ... negotiate prescription drug prices with the pharmaceutical industry, we are going to have very shortly very significant legislation to do just that," Sanders told reporters.

"I would hope that Mr. Trump would join us and support that legislation."

Trump indicated throughout the campaign that he would support allowing the government to negotiate drug prices and said last week that the pharmaceutical industry is "getting away with murder" because of what it charges the government.

Sanders did not say when he would be introducing his legislation, which is also expected to allow for importing drugs from Canada and other countries.

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/314596-sanders-to-roll-out-legislation-allowing-medicare-to-negotiate-drug

[democrank]

1. This would help so many people.

Thank you, Senator Sanders.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Which is why Repubs probably won't even bring it up in committee...

but I applaud the effort, and I hope the M$M will at least report that the leg is out there and Repubs are sitting on it.

I've been seeing more Dems on talk shows of late, I hope that continues and that they continue to hound the Repubs in public.

[brewens]

3. That was the one thing with the ACA that bothered me the most. If you explain that to anyone,

and even older conservatives, almost everyone calls bullshit! It'd have to be one wealthy assed prick, loaded up with big pharma stock in his portfolio to object. I mean what does something like that poll at? 85% in favor? I think that would be a good guess.

Had that been part of "Obamacare", I think it would have gone over better.