Guest Commentary
Congressional Democrats want to fundamentally transform Medicare by imposing socialist price controls on prescription drugs. But they know such drastic changes would be dead-on-arrival in the Republican-held Senate.
In the meantime, some of them are coalescing behind a more moderate-sounding proposal that would achieve a similar result.
This proposal, known as “binding arbitration,” would allow government-appointed arbitrators to dictate, er “negotiate,” drug prices.
Currently, Medicare pays for drugs in different ways. Medicines that patients buy from pharmacies are generally covered through...
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