{"id":19146,"date":"2021-11-18T07:55:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19146"},"modified":"2021-11-18T07:55:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:55:18","slug":"public-opinion-is-unified-on-lowering-prescription-drug-prices-why-are-leaders-settling-for-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19146","title":{"rendered":"Public Opinion Is Unified on Lowering Prescription Drug Prices. Why Are Leaders Settling for Less?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Elisabeth Rosenthal for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Democrats and Republicans are crystal clear in polls that they want government to be allowed to negotiate down high drug prices. Americans pay nearly three times as much for drugs as patients in dozens of other countries. In the past two years, numerous Democratic candidates \u2014 including President Joe Biden \u2014 have campaigned on enacting such legislation.\u00a0 Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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