Posted on 01/26/2016 6:37:47 AM PST by GIdget2004
Donald Trump is calling for Medicare to be able to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices, a policy long backed by Democrats and opposed by Republicans.
The Republican presidential candidate told a crowd in Farmington, N.H., Monday night that the policy would save billions of dollars, but then took a shot at pharmaceutical companies, which strongly oppose the proposal.
"We don't do it. Why? Because of the drug companies," Trump said, according to The Associated Press.
Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, as well as President Obama, have called for the same policy of letting Medicare negotiate prices, which it is currently banned from doing under the 2003 Medicare prescription drug law. The Democratic candidates also have both bashed the drug companies on the stump.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
not surprised
Every leftist at my old office loves this idea, oh brother.
“Always nice when the Republican front runner sides with the Democrats...........he’s a winner don’t cha know.”
Reagan Disciple . . such a silly post for you to make with your ‘Reagan Disciple’ name.
You evidently consider yourself a ‘disciple’ of a former Democrat . . you know, the one that hard-nosed Conservatives accused of having a Democrat agenda when he was running for Prez.
You either need to change your name . . or your sermon, Disciple.
Geez, does anybody need any further proof that Trump simply thinks like a liberal East Coast democrat??? He told us from the start, he’s running “AS” a conservative republican. He just really ISN’T one.
“Always nice when the Republican front runner sides with the Democrats”
Actually it’s refreshing in a situation like this when they are right. Why would medicare NOT negotiate prices?
I believe he is on point by skewering big pharma as a self serving lobby that influences the GOP stance
In principle any bulk buyer of a product or servuce should be able to negotiate on costs
I bet these same leftists love Common Core, which inflates the prices of school books and teacher training and passes the expenses down to the tax payer.
I’m not following you at all here.
Trump says the problem with Medicare/Aid is the drug companies, Hillary and Bernie say the same and you are coming after me?
Freedom of thought, it’s not just for Trump supporters anymore.
Price controls would be like a ball and chain to the pharmaceutical companies.
Ah ha
Another common sense comment
Where is your knee jerk conservatism, friend?
Why not reform the whole program? The main issue of Medicare isn’t the pricing, that’s a left wing propaganda tool.
It’s fraud, in every state at every level. Fix the fraud, you free the system to generate it’s own pricing.
It does not have to be “ price controls’
But it can be negotiated to be better than no discount
Exactly.
This!
And double ditto with medicaid fraud!
“Always nice when the Republican front runner sides with the Democrats”
Actually it’s refreshing in a situation like this when they are right. Why would medicare NOT negotiate prices?
I want to make America Socialist
The problem with “Medicare” and “Medicaid” is that they exist.
Where in Article 1 or any of the Amendments is Congress authorized to create a scheme for controlling certain people’s access to the practice of medicine?
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