Reply #11: People aren't claiming it as a new idea, as it wasn't in 2008. But it is NOT in the current law. [View All]

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The point is that people are advocating that it be implemented rather than let the pharmaceuticals triumph again and cuts be made in other places.

People have been talking about doing it since well before Bush's addition of the pres. drug benefit without the funds to pay for it and expressly outlawing the negotiation of prices, to keep his benefactors in the drug industry happy. This time people need to take this issue on and not give in.