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mk  ·  4618 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Broccoli and Bad Faith
Ironically, Bush's Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act prohibited the Federal government from negotiating prices for prescription drugs. My guess is that he did it for that very reason. The negotiating power of the government would precipitously drop drug prices, and folks might get the idea that public healthcare isn't such a bad thing.




thundara  ·  4618 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Wow, today I learned...that's pretty terrible, plus it would have helped reduce the cost of medicine for old people massively.
mk  ·  4618 days ago  ·  link  ·  
No kidding huh? So much for leveraging market economics.

That is an example of failure-by-design IMO.