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What About Those Drug Price Cuts for Medicare?

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I bet you thought I forgot about this provision. Something the Democratic Party has been trying to provide Medicare recipients for years.  Lowered drug prices because Medicare is granted the ability to negotiate pharmaceutical prices directly with the manufacturers and marketers.  After all, Medicare is the largest purchaser of prescription drugs in the USA- and drugs are our fastest growing medical expense.  And, since Medicare accounts for 20% of all medical expenditures in the USA, of which 1/3 are on prescription drugs, this is a big, big cost center.

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