Hickory NC: What is being said/proposed about lowering drug prices by using the Government's bargaining power? This was a big issue a few years ago but I don't hear much about it now. Thank you.
Ezra Klein: Good idea.
Probably not going to happen. Our legislators our pretty into pharmaceutical industry donations. But its always worth pointing out the absurdity of the Canadian reimportation debate here. That's literally a policy idea that's emerged because Americans go to Canada to buy drugs produced and sold in America because the Canadian government negotiates such incredible discounts. And pharma has fought to make that illegal.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/06/transcript_of_my_post_chat.html#more
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