Today, we're going to talk about a small group of centrist Democrats who nearly sank

one of the most popular provisions of the Billback Better Plan.

I interviewed the governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, who's up for re-election this year

about his approach to COVID, and what New Jersey is doing on voting rights in the face of

so many attacks on those rights across the country.

And Fox LA host Alex Michaels and joins the debrief on the California recall, and what it

means for Trumpism moving forward.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

A little bit of a different focus today.

I want to talk about three House Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee who voted

against a plan lowering prescription drug prices, which is a major element of the Democrats

Billback Better Plan.

Now the provision would allow the U.S. government to negotiate prescription drug prices through

Medicare, and would tie prices for prescription drugs to the prices paid in other countries,

which is a welcome change considering Americans subsidize these companies with unimaginably

excessive profits that no one else in the world is subjected to.

That we're stuck paying these prices is bad enough on its own, but that we still have

Democrats in trenching this system is just unacceptable in this party in the year 2021.

And this should go without saying, but the proposal is fiercely opposed by the pharmaceutical

industry, obviously allowing the government to negotiate lower drug prices on behalf of

350 million people, as opposed to each American being individually responsible for paying

those prices would result in a major hit to profits for the pharmaceutical industry.

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