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Quick Poll: 95 Percent Say Medicare Should Negotiate Drug Costs |
When Republicans in Congress passed Medicare prescription drug plan legislation in 2003, they should have asked the public how to shape the bill. Maybe if the lawmakers had cared about the thoughts of their constituents, they wouldn’t have crafted one that gives Big Pharma big bucks by not requiring Medicare to negotiate drug costs.
In our quick poll yesterday, an overwhelming 95 percent of you said Medicare should negotiate prescription drug prices. The new Democratic majority in Congress thinks the same and plans to pass a bill requiring Medicare to negotiate prices for prescription medication, which Veterans Affairs has done for decades.
The Senate likely will take up similar legislation, although it’s not clear when—and the longer the delay, the more time Big Pharma has to twist arms and prevent the Senate from enacting commonsense legislation that most of us agree on.
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