Federal judge blocks Big Pharma attempt to halt Medicare's historic drug price negotiation championed by President Biden
After decades of Republican-backed obstruction, Medicare finally gained the power to negotiate drug prices last year — thanks to President Biden's historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) — but profit-soaked industry groups and obscenely wealthy drug makers sued to forestall the program, arguing that it was unconstitutional to infringe on their rights to continue bilking Americans for tens of billions of dollars year after year. A federal judge on Friday slapped down their most recent disingenuous legal attempt to thwart price negotiations in a huge win for common sense and human decency. Elections matter, folks!
After decades of Republican-backed obstruction, Medicare finally gained the power to negotiate drug prices last year — thanks to President Biden's historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) — but profit-soaked industry groups and obscenely wealthy drug makers sued to forestall the program, arguing that it was unconstitutional to infringe on their rights to continue bilking Americans for tens of billions of dollars year after year. A federal judge on Friday slapped down their most recent disingenuous legal attempt to thwart price negotiations in a huge win for common sense and human decency. Elections matter, folks!
