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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. Nothing wrong with reviewing a fact or two
Wed Jan 27, 2016, 08:46 AM
Jan 2016

also, though, right? Since there is such anxiety in general over healthcare, here are a few of the details from just Hillary's "Plan for Lowering Prescription Drug Costs."

* Allow Medicare to negotiate drug and biologic prices.
* Allow Americans to import drugs from abroad.
* Demand a stop to excessive profiteering and marketing by denying tax breaks for direct-to-consumer advertising.
* Demand that drug companies invest in R&D in exchange for taxpayer support..
* Encourage competition to get more generics on the market.
* Create a Federal backstop for when there are excessively high-priced drugs that face no competition.
* Cap what insurers can charge consumers in out-of-pocket costs ... Clinton’s plan will require health insurance plans to place a monthly limit of $250 on covered out-of-pocket prescription drug costs...
* Fully fund the FDA’s Office of Generic Drugs to clear out their multi-year generic drug approval backlog, which has kept competitors off the market, ...

A lot more details are spelled out at: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/09/21/hillary-clinton-plan-for-lowering-prescription-drug-costs/

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