Medicare Shoppers: Pay Less for Rx!
February 13, 2013 at 4:28 pm Judith Stein Leave a comment
Want to lower the costs of Medicare for all beneficiaries and taxpayers? Lower the prices Medicare pays for prescription drugs! Like Medicaid and the Veterans Administration – Medicare should negotiate discounts for all beneficiaries. This would save over $200 Billion over the next 10 years.
It’s time to end the Bush era gift to the pharmaceutical industry, which got 50 million new customers when Medicare began covering drugs in 2006, without being asked to lower prices in return. Walmart and Costco negotiate prices for all their customers, that’s how their customers pay less. Medicare should do no less for its “customers.” Surely older people, people with disabilities and taxpayers deserve the kind of consideration given to Walmart shoppers.
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Entry filed under: Deficit Reduction, Drug Costs, Medicare, Medicare Reform. Tags: Corporate Greed, Deficit; Medicare, Pres. Obama, SOTU, State of the Union.
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