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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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Medical Practice…

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English: SAN DIEGO (March 7, 2011) Nurse pract...
English: SAN DIEGO (March 7, 2011) Nurse practitioner Tiffany Holm performs a routine physical on Willie Benjamin at the Tricare Outpatient Clinic-Clairemont Mesa operated by Naval Medical Center San Diego. Twelve health care providers treat more than 3,000 active duty service members, retirees and beneficiaries at the clinic. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Chelsea A. Blom/Released) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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