Expand Medicare drug-price negotiations

El-Sayed supports expanding the drug-price negotiation law he helped design so Medicare can negotiate prices for every prescription drug, and begin negotiating much earlier after drugs reach the market. He also supports making negotiated prices available to all patients, not only people on Medicare. He says he would support public manufacturing of essential medicines such as insulin, oppose excessive drug patents, and end pharmacy benefit managers, which he says price-gouge without providing an essential benefit.

Context: The proposal does not specify how much earlier negotiations would begin.

In their own words

I support expanding that law to empower Medicare to negotiate prices for every single prescription drug,

The source

Abdul El-Sayed: Medicare for All healthcare plan

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