Healthy Skepticism Library item: 7467

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Publication type: news

Free Market News
Pharmaceuticals Crack Down on Congress
Free Market News 2007 Jan 14
http://web.archive.org/web/20070118210248/http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=31399

Full text:

Before taking control of the House last week, Democratic leaders briefly considered proposing a new government-run prescription drug program as a way to reduce seniors’ drug costs, according to Democratic aides and lawmakers involved in the deliberations.

But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her allies chose a far less ambitious plan — to require the government to negotiate for lower Medicare drug prices — that will come to a vote today. They stepped back largely out of concern that the pharmaceutical industry would stall a complex change, denying them a quick victory on a top consumer-oriented priority, aides say. -Washington Post