Biden says Medicare should negotiate prices for at least 50 drugs each year, up from a target of 20

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Biden says Medicare should negotiate prices for at least 50 drugs each year, up from a target of 20
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Key Points

  • President Joe Biden said the federal Medicare program should negotiate prices for at least 50 prescription drugs each year, up from the current target of 20 medicines.
  • That proposal is one of several new health-care policy plans Biden will outline during his State of the Union address Thursday.
  • But the fate of his new proposals will be in the hands of a divided Congress, making it highly uncertain whether they will pass into law.
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Hear me out. You shouldn't have to pay anything, those companies shouldn't exist and it should be government funded. - sincerely the rest of the western world

But the only way to pay for this would be through taxes, and taxes are theft remember.

Oh I completely agree.. I sadly just don’t expect that to happen in the good ol land of the free.

The least they could do is completely screw us all at a rate of about one quarter of the current rates. That way I could at least forget about the complete absurdity of the whole situation for 5 seconds.