War­ren and Klobuchar say they can low­er drug prices with­out Con­gress’ help

On Tues­day, two De­moc­rats run­ning for pres­i­dent promised to do — each by her­self — what Wash­ing­ton has so far proven un­able to do: low­er the prices of pre­scrip­tion drugs.

Speak­ing dur­ing the last De­mo­c­ra­t­ic de­bate be­fore the Iowa cau­cus on Feb. 3, Sen. Eliz­a­beth War­ren of Mass­a­chu­setts and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Min­neso­ta said, if elect­ed pres­i­dent, they would each act im­me­di­ate­ly to di­rect­ly re­duce the cost of cer­tain drugs.

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