Sanders working to get prescription drug price provision in social spending bill

[Uncle Joe]

(Reuters) - Progressive U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said on Sunday that he was still working on getting a provision to lower prescription drug prices into the social spending bill pending in the U.S. Congress before a vote by the House of Representatives.

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A proposal that would allow the U.S. government's Medicare health plan for seniors to negotiate prescription drug prices to make them cheaper was not included in the social spending bill.

"I spent all of yesterday on the telephone... We are continuing that effort (to include the prescription drug price provision in the bill)", Sanders told CNN in an interview on Sunday.

"It is outrageous that we continue to pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs," added Sanders, who has championed that cause for years.

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https://news.yahoo.com/sanders-working-prescription-drug-price-145115096.html

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Good for him.

Not only is it an outrage that we are being gouged, Americans are effectively footing the bill for "R&D" that benefits the whole world.

Advertising also needs to be regulated.

[Uncle Joe]

3. I agree. I remember when they used to not advertise prescription drugs on television,

it was left up to doctors but this allowed Big Pharma to make an end run around medical professionals and sway their patients with some one sided hypnotic propaganda.

The owners of the corporate media were happy with that arrangement, because now they had commercial drug mega-bucks coming in, some doctors made out pretty good too.


In exchange the American People got the opioid crisis and the privilege of paying the highest price for prescription drugs in the world.

[FoxNewsSucks]

4. And because of all that money coming in,

we'll never hear a peep from corporate media about the screwing we are getting.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I could not agree more! This is so important. n/t

[PoliticAverse]

5. And Sinema is working her thumb. n/t

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[70sEraVet]

7. "The United States and New Zealand are the only two countries in the world

"where direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs is legal."
https://www.goodrx.com/healthcare-access/patient-advocacy/prescription-drug-advertising-regulation-united-states
I believe that the main arguing point that pharmaceutical companies made before Congress, was that advertisements would bring drug prices down.
It looks like the rest of the nations of the world saw how our drugs prices were affected, and decided to continue to outlaw the advertisements.