Health and Fitness

Sanders Plan Would Stop Runaway Prescription Drug Prices

BURLINGTON, Vt. –(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2015.  Letting Medicare negotiate with drug companies for lower price prescription medications and cracking down on pharmaceutical industry fraud are among proposals that Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders outlined Tuesday as part of a package to rein in runaway prices for prescription medicine.

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Prescription prices jumped 12.6 percent last year in the United States, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That increase was more than double the…

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