re: #481 webevintage

But if they had instead allowed Medicare to negotiate drug prices with the drug companies like the VA does then wouldn’t that have been the more fiscally responsible move and would have helped those folks stuck in that ridiculous “doughnut hole”?

The “donut hole” is a funding decision and has nothing to do with the basics of how the program operates.

If the government gets to dictate prices on drugs, then the US would see far fewer new drugs. I am very much opposed to that outcome. Big Pharma charges what seems like obscene markups on drugs to pay for the countless failed attempts at developing new ones. There is a reason almost all new drug treatments are developed in the US and nowhere else.