Franken makes play for Medicare drug price negotiations

January 26, 2011
StarTribune.com Blog
Posted by Kevin Diaz

Picking at one of the old scabs of the health care debate, Sen. Al Franken, D-Min., has introduced legislation that would allow the federal government to negotiate lower drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries.

The prohibition on negotiations was long a sore point among Democrats during the Bush years. But it was one of the first concessions President Obama made in the early going of the health care debate. Read more

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