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prescription drug prices

Medicare will negotiate drug prices for the first time ever. Here’s what that means

This new negotiating power could save the federal government nearly $100 billion by 2031 and slash some prices Medicare pays by half.
Eli Lilly says legislation to address drug prices would hurt its current, future operations

Samantha Horton

Congress is debating the Democratic proposal, H.R.3, that would allow the federal government to negotiate prescription drug prices in an effort to lower costs.