Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Oct 2019
Congress can act now to lower drug prices
17 October 2019 - Bipartisan legislation would redesign Medicare Part D to lower costs for beneficiaries and tax payers.
It’s no secret that health care is a politically divisive issue. In the past decade, national elections have been decided on it, and control of Congress has changed hands in part over it. Despite these differences, there is hope for a bipartisan agreement to lower prescription drug costs.
Drug prices have become a top issue for people of every region, demographic and ideology, polls consistently show. One in 4 seniors say it’s difficult to afford their medicines, and 80% of Americans consider prescription drug costs unreasonable. Price hikes year after year exceed any justifiable metric.
