Biden con­tin­ues his pledge for Medicare drug price ne­go­ti­a­tions in State of the Union speech

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden is not back­ing down on ad­vo­cat­ing for Medicare to ne­go­ti­ate drug prices. In his first State of the Union on Tues­day evening, which in ad­di­tion took Rus­sia to task over its in­va­sion of Ukraine, Biden re­vealed that cut­ting phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal prices is chief among the pri­or­i­ties of his do­mes­tic agen­da.

Biden and con­gres­sion­al De­moc­rats craft­ed wide-rang­ing drug pric­ing pro­vi­sions, in­clud­ing al­low­ing Medicare to ne­go­ti­ate for the first time, in the Build Back Bet­ter Act. But that bill and its parts now ap­pear dead, large­ly thanks to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who balked at some of the non-drug-re­lat­ed pro­vi­sions.

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