White House Drops Plan to Lower Drug Prices

Wall Street Journal: “The White House isn’t expected to include a measure aimed at lowering the price of prescription drugs in its coming antipoverty package… in an omission likely to disappoint top Democrats on Capitol Hill.”

“Negotiating the price of drugs would save the government roughly $456 billion over 10 years… But disagreements among Democrats about how to use the savings generated by drug-price negotiation has complicated its path forward.”