Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jul 2016
Brady says GOP won’t allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices
19 July 2016 - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady said Republicans would not agree to let Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices, as presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has proposed.
Speaking at Cleveland Clinic health care panel during RNC, Brady says Republicans wouldn’t go along with that plan if Trump was elected president and proposed it.
“Study after study shows that that will save no money,” Brady says. “There’s a simple reason. If you follow the VA model, which is what’s proposed for Medicare, this is how they save money: They don’t allow breakthrough drugs, that may be more expensive, so they limit the medicines that are available, and they limit how the veterans can get them. They limit access”.
