VIP Clin­ton sup­port­er pitched cam­paign chief Podes­ta on Cana­di­an price con­trols for the US

Per­haps this pitch didn’t go very far in the Hillary Clin­ton cam­paign, but the ex­change be­tween John Podes­ta and Michael Gra­noff, a backer who helped with the 1992 pres­i­den­tial tran­si­tion team for Bill Clin­ton, does help il­lus­trate some of the ideas that are be­ing kicked around by se­nior staffers for con­trol­ling drug prices.

In a new hacked email ex­change re­leased by Wik­iLeaks, Gra­noff — who runs Pomona Cap­i­tal — made a re­mark­able pro­pos­al built on what he called the “Most Fa­vored Na­tion” con­cept.

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