As Con­gress bat­tles over gov­ern­ment drug price ne­go­ti­a­tion, new poll finds strong sup­port on both sides of the aisle

More than 80% of Amer­i­cans “strong­ly fa­vor” or “some­what fa­vor” al­low­ing the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to ne­go­ti­ate with drug com­pa­nies, in­clud­ing 92% of De­moc­rats and 76% of Re­pub­li­cans polled by the Kaiser Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion late last month and ear­li­er this month.

The poll re­leased Tues­day morn­ing comes as Con­gress re­mains dead­locked on how to find a way to give drug price ne­go­ti­at­ing pow­er to Medicare, as part of an ef­fort to help pay for a larg­er so­cial spend­ing bill from the De­moc­rats. With on­ly a slim ma­jor­i­ty in the Sen­ate, and Pelosi’s planned vote dead­line com­ing up quick­ly at the end of the month, De­moc­rats seem to be re­peat­ing their past fail­ures, find­ing holes in their buck­et of sup­port.

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