Archive for March 2016

SINCE THE MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG, IMPROVEMENT, AND MODERNIZATION ACT (ALSO CALLED THE MEDICARE MODERNIZATION ACT, OR MMA) WAS PASSED IN 2003, DEMOCRATS HAV E BEEN ARGUING THAT MEDICARE SHOULD BE ABLE TO “ NEGOTIATE ” DRUG PRICES , USING THE POWER OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS A MAJOR PURCHASER TO PRODUCE LOWER PRICES THAN WOULD…