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Why could not Medicare negotiate drug prices before the Inflation Reduction Act?
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When Congress created Medicare Part D in 2003, pharmaceutical lobbyists inserted a noninterference clause that explicitly prohibited the HHS Secretary from negotiating drug prices. This made Medicare...
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