By following through on Biden’s Medicare price negotiation program, he can take credit for prescription reductions. But Big Pharma doesn’t want that to happen.
David Dayen
David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud. He co-hosts the podcast Organized Money with Matt Stoller.
He can be reached on Signal at ddayen.90.
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