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I wish more incumbant politicians running for higher office would...

Trakar

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...propose and offer specific legislation representative of what they would advocate for, propose, support and promote as the nation's political leader. Imagine, political leadership in the realm of drafting and crafting public policy, and then rallying and building public support, passing and maintaining such legislation as it grows into established standards of practice...

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and a Representative Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) have proposed a bill targeting high prescription drug costs. The Prescription Drug Affordability Act of 2015 would enable Medicare to negotiate drug prices, permit consumers to import less expensive drugs from Canada and require companies to disclose the prices they charge in other countries, according to The Wall Street Journal.

"There is no rational reason why Americans should pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs," Sen. Sanders, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, said in an interview Wednesday, according to WSJ. "The result of that is people are dying and becoming much sicker because they can’t afford the medicines they need."

Last year, high prices for prescription drugs caused the highest increase in U.S. prescription spending in more than a decade, according to the report.

Other lawmakers have previously proposed some of the measures included in Sen. Sanders' and Rep. Cummings' bill, but these have been fiercely opposed by drug makers. One such provision included in the Prescription Drug Affordability Act of 2015 would aim to cut prices by instructing HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell to negotiate prices of drugs covered by the Medicare Part D drug benefit program, according to the report. President Barack Obama proposed this earlier this year, and U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) also supported the idea in legislation she reintroduced this year.

A summary of the bill from Sen. Sanders' office includes an estimate from the Center for Economic and Policy Research that Medicare could save $230 billion to $541 billion in the next decade by directly negotiating prices, according to the report...

http://www.beckershospitalreview.co...s-new-bill-takes-aim-at-high-drug-prices.html
"Bernie Sanders' new bill takes aim at high drug prices"
 
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