Reconciling With Reconciliation Over Drug Pricing Opinion
Doing something about the high cost of prescription drug pricing is supported by over 80 percent of Americans. Yet, the entire fate of what is in the reconciliation legislation and how prescription drug pricing may be effected has become somewhat more questionable as a result of how Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and other moderates are reading the results of the Virginia election. The pharmaceutical industry launched a massive advertising campaign to muster support for dropping the reform to Medicare drug pricing, but it is a top lobbying priority of such organizations as AARP....