After 30 Years, Here's Biden's Plan To Lower Drug Costs: Negotiate

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The government announced the first ten drugs that are the subject of price negotiations between the U.S. government and private companies. For decades, the government has been prohibited from negotiating the price it pays through Medicare for medication — until the rule was relaxed under the Affordable Care Act.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House reporter Deepa Shivaram, and Pharmaceuticals correspondent Sydney Lupkin.

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0:27.1	I wish it to you all, and here's the show.
0:29.8	I would like to hear her ukulele playing.
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0:37.2	I feel like every music kid, every band kid, can relate to that.
0:40.1	It's excruciating, but we love it.
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