MI-SEN: Rogers says Medicare negotiating drug price reductions is 'sugar high politics'
Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-White Lake)said he was “passionately against” allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, which he referred to as “sugar high politics.”
The comments made by Rogers, who is running against U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, came during a senior town hall meeting held in Troy on Sept. 20.
According to audio obtained by the Michigan Advance, Rogers said that when it came to negotiating drug prices, it was his belief that the federal government “shouldn’t be engaged in that.”
The ability to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies was only made possible when President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, following decades of attempts to push that reform through Congress. The act also capped monthly insulin out-of-pocket costs for Medicare Part D beneficiaries at $35.
https://michiganadvance.com/2024/10/02/rogers-says-medicare-negotiating-drug-price-reductions-is-sugar-high-politics/
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