Overturn the Tauzen act passed in 2004, the act that keeps medicare and private insurers from negotiating with drug companies for BETTER prices for US citizens and savings for the US government. STOP THIS WASTE !!! Save BILLIONS annually.
Why is this important?
American citizens pay twice for drugs. Taxpayers help fund drug research and development through the NIH. Then US taxpayers pay a second time by paying higher prices for new drugs, unlike citizens of the UK and Canada who benefit from government negotiations with pharmacies. We keep hearing about the US FISCAL crisis. Why not recover some lost money and help pay for more NIH funding, defray the costs of the ACA, expand GME and fix the SGR!.
