Pelosi’s drug pricing plan would let Medicare negotiate prices for up to 250 drugs
The new legislation is more aggressive than prior concepts that had circulated among lobbyists and congressional staff this year.
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled her long-awaited plan to lower drug prices Thursday.
The progressive plan gives Democrats an aggressive counter to the White House’s numerous and widely covered efforts to lower drug prices. But the plan also serves, in some ways, as an olive branch to President Trump: Pelosi included many of the administration’s own ideas in her document, in apparent hopes of gaining his support.
According to a legislative summary obtained by STAT, the plan would enact an international price
