Biden's Affordable Drug Efforts

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Biden’s efforts to make prescription drugs more affordable may be in jeopardy

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The Department of Health and Human Services announced the names of 15 drugs that will be subject to Medicare ’s new negotiation power.

David Gergen : This is a big part of Joe Biden ’ legacy, one that top officials in the outgoing administration are using these final days to highlight.

Gergen says there are good reasons to think the reforms will prove resilient, but there are also reasons that they won’t be politically viable.

Last year’s budget proposal from the Republican Study Committee called for repealing the new prescription drug reforms.

As for implementing the law, that would fall to HHS , an agency Trump has said he wants Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead.

Trump has been more critical of the drug industry than many Republicans , in particular seizing on the fact that the U.S. doesn’t get the same low drug prices as other countries.

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