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dalke on Feb 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Break Up the Insulin Racket

> Generally speaking, the US government demands most favored pricing and gets it. No way we would pay more than France.

I though the US government, except for the VA, was "not permitted to negotiate prices of drugs with the drug companies" due to Medicare Part D. (Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Part_D#Criticisms .) Was that prohibition removed?

If it's still there, then wouldn't that prevent the US government from demanding most favored pricing, as that would be a negotiation.

Spooky23 on Feb 23, 2016 [–]

I was referring to the hypothetical cases where the Federal government does negotiate.

My guess is they do not because hey would put companies out of business and impact many countries.

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