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Prescription Drugs Are Going To Get Cheaper Because Dems Played The (Very) Long Game
If you want to understand why Democrats and their allies are so excited about the prescription drug reforms that President Joe Biden signed on Tuesday, it helps to think about how long they have been trying to put those reforms on the books.
The idea of giving the federal government leverage over pharmaceutical prices goes back decades, at least to the early 1990s when former President Bill Clinton was putting together his ill-fated plan for universal health care.