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Re:No One Goes There Anymore by jfnixon on Sunday May 17, 2020 @08:45AM (#23211580)
Nation-sized leverage? Piffle. Pass a law that Big Pharma can't price higher in the US than the lowest price negotiated elsewhere. Boom, problem solved.
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Re:No One Goes There Anymore by tobylane on Sunday May 17, 2020 @10:40AM (#23212330)
From 2003 to maybe 2019 Medicare was explicitly forbidden from negotiating drug prices. Second bullet point in this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,_Im...

The first world has successfully encouraged the drug makers to sell their product cheaper in the third world. If you look on wikipedia drug articles you'll see the price for the generic in the developed and developing world.

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Re:No One Goes There Anymore by code_duck on Sunday May 17, 2020 @10:11PM (#23217482)
That's the problem... The political conditions that preclude passage of such a law.
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