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Dopes on a Slope

June 21, 2023 - 00:00
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The ink is barely dry on the Inflation Reduction Act's drug pricing provisions. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services hasn't even finalized many of the relevant regulations.Yet already, Democrats are whining that their own law doesn't go far enough -- so they're doubling down on the law's drug price controls. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Peter Welch (D-VT), and 23 of their colleagues just introduced the Orwellian- named 'Strengthening Medicare and Reducing Taxpayer (SMART) Prices Act,' which they claim 'builds on Klobuchar and Welch's provision included in the Inflation Reduction Act that empowered Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices for ...

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