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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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When I’m 65…

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Several years ago (ok, a little more than a decade ago), I was contracted to manage the finances (and rehabilitation) of a multi-site, multi-unit apartment complex that stretched from Baltimore to Hagerstown to Silver Spring (all in Maryland) to Loudon (Virginia). During that time, we increased occupancy to over 95% in three of the units- and kept the fourth at 80%, so we could rehab a section of units at a time.

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