tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 8

Pharmaceuticals: NLRC Opposes Medicare Rx Bargaining

Right-to-Life Agenda may be broader than you might think.At a Jan. 24 press conference marking the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, National Right to Life Committee's Burke Balch said the organization intends to fight "price controls for prescription drugs in Medicare." That's a reference to efforts by many congressional Democrats and moderate Republicans such as Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME) to give the Health and Human Services Secretary power to negotiate with drug companies on behalf of Medicare's 40 million-plus seniors and disabled people."Medicare represents such a big portion of the drug market that negotiation in this...

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