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[–] protist@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Biden had CMS (The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) negotiate some drug prices with pharmaceutical companies on behalf of Medicare recipients. This is entirely legal, because the federal government is the payer for people with Medicare. Pharmaceutical companies want Medicare to keep covering their drugs, so they're willing to come to the table. Again, this is for Medicare only.

What's harebrained, blatantly not legal, and unimplementable is, "I hereby order all drug prices in the US to be the lowest in the world!"

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This is rich, coming from someone actively demonstrating they lack a basic understanding of what Biden did despite providing a link to it