Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumSanders vows to cut prescription prices in half if elected president
The HillSen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) vowed Sunday to cut prescription drug prices in half if elected president in 2020.
"It is absurd that Americans are forced to pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs while the top 5 drug companies made over $50 billion in profits last year," he said on CBS's "Face the Nation."
"We have a national health emergency when one out of five Americans cannot afford to purchase the medicine their doctors prescribe. Whether the drug companies like it or not, that is a situation which must end, and end soon."
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Kahuna7
(2,531 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
we can do it
(12,116 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Which, if it is the way he envisions doing it, he would likely be ok if Trump gets upheld in Court.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
kstewart33
(6,551 posts)Now, how exactly is he going to do that? By presidential decree?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Jakes Progress
(11,121 posts)I don't have to tell you how either.
Oh. And I'm going to make all the bad CEOs stop being bad. And I'll scowl while I do it.
Do you love me now too?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Because current law says the federal government is prohibited from negotiating drug prices, the drug companies can do whatever the hell they want.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
yardwork
(61,408 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)I mean the Amendment King.
Never mind. I mean the master of his own domain.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
awesomerwb1
(4,256 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Demsrule86
(68,347 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)in the 2016 primary and she got pilloried. Maybe promising a unicorn gets around that problem, because at least ponies exist.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)I do not find Bernie to be believable.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BlueFlorida
(1,532 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Demsrule86
(68,347 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
question everything
(47,264 posts)I don't trust a word he says.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)He would have done something that in his long time in Congress, he did not do or seem to try to do. The question is exactly how does he do what he promised. He must be hoping that Trump's national emergency ploy gets upheld by the Courts, because use of such a tactic is the only way that drug prices can be lowered.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)A chicken in every pot! A car in every garage! Free college! Everything's free, free, FREE!!
Promises without realistic and real-world plans to implement them, or get them passed into law, AND FUNDED... well, it's hard to take him seriously.
I think we should take a close look at his legislative accomplishments before we take these types of promises seriously.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden