A jog down mem­o­ry lane: How many times have De­moc­rats tried and failed to win drug price ne­go­ti­a­tions?

Af­ter more than a decade of failed at­tempts at pass­ing a bill to al­low Medicare to ne­go­ti­ate drug prices, De­moc­rats this au­tumn may be on the cusp of van­quish­ing their past.

Since at least 2007, var­i­ous forms of drug pric­ing leg­is­la­tion have lin­gered and seen ex­ten­sive op­po­si­tion from Re­pub­li­cans, who’ve long main­tained that ma­jor cuts to Big Phar­ma prof­its could spell the end of the next promis­ing drug be­fore it even be­gins to be de­vel­oped.

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